Word: zorilla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet are pancake-flat. Back home in Puerto Rico no one thought he would be a ballplayer at all. The Santurce Crabbers kept him sitting on the bench. "That kid was bowlegged and knock-kneed and had one leg shorter than the other," explains Santurce Owner Pete Zorilla. "A nice kid, yes. Full of laughs and fun, sure. But a ballplayer? No." What Cepeda did have was size and a pretty fair batting eye. In 1955, the Giants decided to risk $500 by signing the hulking 17-year-old to a contract, though he had never played an inning...
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