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I try not to double-post too often, but fortuitous coincidence. I've been reading a book called "The Baseball 100," which is Joe Posnanski's subjective list of the greatest players in baseball history, with a lot of tangents/asides. In the context of how Roberto Clemente was a trailblazer on behalf of Puerto Ricans and Latino players more generally, he mentions that Orlando Cepeda was known as the "Baby Bull" because his father, Perucho Cepeda, was first "the Bull." On Perucho:

He crushed line drives into gaps. He ran with abandon. He was a shortstop and, by reputation, an amazing one. He played with unbridled fury. At different times, he was called Puerto Rico's Ty Cobb and Puerto Rico's Babe Ruth--one writer called him Puerto Rico's Babe Cobb, as if being compared to only one of the great American baseball legends was not enough.

This is (amazingly) going to tie into my Farscape recap, so stand by.