The Orlando Cepeda Story

The Orlando Cepeda Story

$16.95

An inspiring biography of a baseball player that overcame the barriers of race and ethnicity.

by Bruce Markusen

ISBN: 978-1-55885-333-1
Publication Date: 2001
Format: Clothbound
Pages: 146
Imprint: Piñata Books
Ages: 11 and up

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When Orlando “Cha Cha” Cepeda began playing major league baseball in 1958, the San Francisco Giants’ farm director compared the newly acquired player to the great Willie Mays, saying that Cepeda was the best young player he’d seen since the “Say Hey Kid” emerged. The Orlando Cepeda Story follows that sensational year and those following when Cepeda slammed his way into a professional baseball career that would last nearly twenty years and span six team assignments.

BRUCE MARK– USEN is the Manager of Program Presentations at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. He has written two other books, Roberto Clemente: The Great One and Baseball’s Last Dynasty Charlie Finley’s Okland A’s, which received the 1999 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research as the best baseball book of the preceding year. He has also written extensively for Baseball Digest and for a variety of sports-related websites. Bruce and his wife Sue reside in Cooperstown, New York.

ATOS Interest Level: Middle/Upper Grade
Category: Young Adult
ATOS English: 7
Accelerated Reader Quiz #: 58069

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