Orlando Cepeda Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles
ORLANDO CEPEDA
Born: September 17, 1937 in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Full name Orlando Manuel (Pennes) Cepeda
Born September 17, 1937, Ponce, Puerto Rico
First Game: April 15, 1958; Final Game: September 19, 1974
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 6' 2" Weight: 210
Selected to the Hall of Fame in 1999
Named NL Most Valuable Player by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1967)
Named NL Player of the Year by The Sporting News (1967)
Named NL Rookie of the Year by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1958)
Named NL Rookie Player of the Year by The Sporting News (1958)
Named first baseman on The Sporting News Major League All-Star Team (1959)
Named first baseman on The Sporting News NL All-Star Team (1961 to 1962 and 1967)
ORLANDO CEPEDA
This article was written by Mark Stewart and is presented in part, courtesy of the Society for American Baseball Research
For a decade and a half starting in the late 1950s, few things were more unnerving to major league pitchers than the sight of Orlando Cepeda striding confidently to the plate. A power hitter in the truest sense of the word, Cepeda played as long and as hard as his disintegrating knees could take him. Remembered as a difference-maker both in the field and the clubhouse, he had an uncanny ability to make bad teams good and good teams great. Cepeda’s heartbreaking post-career fall from grace—and eventual resurrection to Cooperstown—provided a fascinating final chapter to his remarkable story, as well as a poignant reminder of the ephemeral nature of stardom in sports.
Orlando Manuel Cepeda was born on September 17, 1937, in the southern seaport city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. His brother, Pedro, was four years older. Cepeda’s father, Perucho, was a big, power-hitting shortstop sometimes called the “Babe Ruth of the Caribbean,” but more commonly known as “The Bull.” Cepeda often answered to Peruchin, and would come to be called “The Baby Bull” (and also Cha-Cha) by his fans.
After Orlando was born, his father joined the Guayama club of the Puerto Rican Winter League. This proved helpful to the family, as the money he had been sending from the Dominican was barely keeping the family afloat, and what he kept for himself he often gambled away. Though past his prime, Perucho batted over .400 in 1938 and 1940, and in 1939 edged Josh Gibson for the Puerto Rican League batting title with a .383 mark.
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL - HFSID 269912Baseball signed: "Orlando Cepeda/ROY 58". Rawlings Official National League baseball, Leonard S. Coleman, Jr., President. Puerto Rican slugger Orlando Cepeda was the National League's Rookie of the Year in 1958.
Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL - HFSID 283011Official Major League Baseball signed by the Hall of Famer, encased in PSA Sports cube with authentication label and an overall grade of 9.5. Baseball signed "Orlando Cepeda" in blue ink. 2½-inch diameter baseball. Official Major League baseball, Allen H. Selig.
Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL - HFSID 283033Rawlings Official Major League Baseball signed with his year of induction into the Hall of Fame, "HOF99", encased in PSA Sports cube with authentication label and an overall grade of 9.5. Baseball signed "Orlando Cepeda/HOF99" in blue ink.
Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL - HFSID 291304Official Major League Baseball signed by the Hall of Famer, sealed in PSA Sports cube with authentication label and an overall grade of 9. Baseball signed "Orlando Cepeda" in blue ink. 2½-inch diameter baseball. Rawlings Official Major League baseball, Allan H.
Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL - HFSID 293010Very rare signature "Orlando Cepeda "Baby Bull" ", signed in blue ink on the sweet spot, sealed in PSA/DNA cube with authentication label and an overall grade of 9.5. Baseball signed "Orlando Cepeda/"Baby Bull" " Rawlings Official Major League baseball, Allan H.
Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL - HFSID 293032Very rare signature "Orlando Manuel Cepeda", signed in blue ink on the sweet spot, sealed in PSA/DNA cube with authentication label and an overall grade of 9. Baseball signed "Orlando Manuel Cepeda". Rawlings Official Major League baseball, Allan H.
Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 305062Color image of the Hall of Famer, shown in his Boston Red Sox uniform Photograph signed: "Orlando/Cepeda" in black felt tip, Color 8x10. Puerto Rican slugger Orlando Cepeda, born Orlando Manuel Cepeda in 1937, was the National League's Rookie of the Year in 1958.
Sale Price $144.00
$160.00
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ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA - TRADING/SPORTS CARD SIGNED - HFSID 284533Signed 1962 baseball card, the year of his first world championship Sports Card signed: "Orlando Cepeda". Color, 2½x3½. Topps baseball card #40 for 1962, with season and career batting stats through 1961 printed on verso.
Sale Price $108.00
$120.00
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CURT FLOOD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 291570Twenty-one players from the 7-game Series, including Hall of Famers Kaline and Brock; and other stars including Curt Flood, Orlando Cepeda and Bill Freehan and Willie Horton.
Sale Price $765.00
$900.00
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CURT FLOOD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 29298520 Major League ballplayers active in the 1960s and 1970s signed this PSA/DNA authenticated baseball.
Sale Price $510.00
$600.00
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CURT FLOOD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 297644Two Hall of Famers and an assortment of All-Stars and Major Leaguers from the 1960s and 1970s sign a Rawlings Official National League baseball (White) Baseball signed: "Curt Flood", "Bob Uecker", "Dean Chance", "Jim Ray Hart"
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 111629Regulation baseball signed in blue ink by the following: "Elston Howard, Orlando Cepeda, Bob Gibson, Joe Garagiola, Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bibby and Dan Driessen" in all 6 signatures
Sale Price $315.00
$350.00
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ROGER MARIS - MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED 04/28/1968 WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 57179agazine Photographs signed: "Roger Maris", "Orlando Cepeda" and "Tim McCarver" on their respective photos. Color, 8½x11. MARIS broke Babe Ruth's 34-year-old major league record of 60 home runs in one season when he hit 61 in 1961.
Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL CIRCA 1980 WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 10120825 members of the team pen their names on this official American League baseball Baseball Signed: "Tony LaRussa", "Orlando Cepeda, "Britt Burns", "Al Banister", "Bobby Winkler", "Richard Wortham", "Richard Dotson", "Claude
Sale Price $701.25
$825.00
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THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS - HAT SIGNED WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID 285689Both signed the bill of the San Francisco Giants cap Hat signed: "Juan/Marichal/#27", "Orland Cepeda/#30". Black and orange San Francisco Giants cap, signed on the bill in white felt tip.
Sale Price $292.50
$325.00