Growing up in Puerto Rico, Cepeda had baseball in his blood. The family lived in abject poverty, but young Orlando drew constant inspiration from his father, Perucho, one of the greatest ...

The comments were insulting, U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez said, they were vile and disrespectful. But, she said, they weren’t entirely unexpected. The Democrat from New York, the first Puerto Rican woman ...