Baby Bull: From Hardball to Hard Time and Back

by Orlando Cepeda, Herb Fagen (Primary Contributor)

Orlando Cepeda enjoyed a stellar baseball career in the late fifties and throughout the sixties, but after it ended in the mid-seventies, his life fell apart. In Baby Bull , Cepeda shares his story for the first time. He reflects on his baseball career and shares his twenty-year struggle to rebuild his life and regain his reputation.

Genres: Baseball

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Ron Kaplan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cepeda,biography

[Ellison · Rating 4 out of 5]

about a ballplayer whose dad was a ballplayer. raised in poverty he is signed by san fran giants and aspire to make his way in the united states. he admits that his culture is emotional, yet, when a manager says his culture players are emotional, well, that is just terrible? rookie of the year. world series, loss, bad managers? traded, wins world series, traded. bad knees. has one final good season, then bounces around, quits.

busted for aspiring to transport self medication. his countrymen call his mother and blast her? friends pay for a lawyer and he is able to get jail time in united states!

little job options. when he is offered jobs he claims the pay is too low? he admits that yes, he did bad-mouth people. multi wives, multi children. tries out a new faith. eventually is able to get some employment.

appears that this was written in an effort to get attention to get him into the hall of fame. it was a success. too bad that he was not able to share how that went. written before making the hall. congrats. b/w images.