Hey, Orlando Cepeda Knows English
Although much of the presentation at the Bud Selig Distinguished Lecture Series on Tuesday was about the importance of baseball in Japanese-American culture, those of us who attended also got ourselves an excellent story about how certain white players did not particularly enjoy hearing Spanish on the field.
In a Giants-Reds game, Orlando Cepeda was on second with Matty Alou batting. Cepeda was shouting instructions of some sort to Alou at the plate in Spanish. Reds’ pitcher Joseph Jay wasn’t happy about it, leading to the following exchange:
JAY: Hey, don’t you speak any English?
CEPEDA: I think you’re a cocksucker.
Question answered.
Jack Moore is a blogger for CBS Sports and operates ESPN's SweetSpot Brewers blog Disciples of Uecker, among other things. Follow him on twitter at @jh_moore.
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Simply perfect.
boom headshot!
This is something I did with my time just now: http://oi42.tinypic.com/zlwv93.jpg
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It was a great story. Unfortunately, it’s not true. Or at least some of the details are off, as I wrote here: http://www.platoonadvantage.com/2012/01/and-now-great-story-about-orlando.html.
Sorry to be a dick about it.
Day ruined.
I’m going to assume one of your alternatives is true, or perhaps three completely different players were involved.