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Dazzy Vance Chronicles They Called Him “Cha Cha”

(Baseball announced that Orlando Cepeda had won the N.L. Most Valuable Player award on this date in 1967.)

By Glen Sparks
Orlando Cepeda loved San Francisco. He took to the nightlife and frequented the city’s many jazz clubs. Cepeda, the son of a Puerto Rican baseball legend, kicked back and listened to Miles Davis and John Coltrane at the Black Hawk on Hyde Street. Cool music filled the air, and fog cooled the streets.