Orlando Cepeda
date: label: date made
content: 1959
name: label: Associated Name
content: Cepeda, Orlando
notes: label: Description
content: 1959 Topps "Bazooka Joe" baseball card #553 featuring San Francisco Giants first baseman Orlando Cepeda. Statistics on reverse. The card commemorates Cepeda's "Sporting News '59 All Star Selection".
label: Description
content: Puerto Rican native Orlano Cepeda (b. 1937) was a first baseman for the San Francisco Giants (1958-66,) St. Louis Cardinals (1966-68,) Atlanta Braves (1968-72,) Oakland Athletics (1972,) Boston Red Sox (1973) and Kansas City Royals (1974).
label: Description
content: Named the National League Rookie of the Year in 1958, Cepeda would go on to be named to eleven All-Star games. In 1967, he was named the League's Most Valuable Player, leading the Cardinals to that year's World Series championship.
label: Description
content: He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
label: Associated Place
content: Colombia: Caquetá, Puerto Rico
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: Subject
content: Latinos and Baseball
label: Subject
content: Puerto Ricans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3085.163
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3085
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3085.163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm