Let’s start with a quick story about Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, who died on Friday at age 86.
When Orlando Cepeda was 17 years old, a friend of his father, named Pete Zorilla—a big man in Puerto Rican baseball—set up travel to a New York Giants baseball tryout happening in Melbourne, Fla. Young Orlando Cepeda lived for baseball. It was everything to h…