Peruchín Cepeda

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Peruchín Cepeda

Puerto Rican baseball player

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Latin Americans in Major League Baseball Through the First Years of the 21st Century
The 1930s through World War II
…truly a baseball star was Peruchín Cepeda, a powerful infielder who, because he was black, could not play in organized baseball; his own career unjustly forgotten, he is remembered now only for being the father of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda.
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…truly a baseball star was Peruchín Cepeda, a powerful infielder who, because he was black, could not play in organized baseball; his own career unjustly forgotten, he is remembered now only for being the father of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda.
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