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Giants to honor Cepeda with statue (AP)

 
Orlando Cepeda sat through several other statue unveilings honoring his comrades and thought to himself he'd probably get his own one day. "Someday mine will be there," he recalled with a grin of his thinking then. "I didn't tell anybody. I said it to myself." Cepeda's likeness has now been cast in bronze, joining his fellow Giants Hall of Famers to be honored with 9-foot statues in San Francisco:... (link)

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