Orlando Cepeda rubs both knees, perhaps subconsciously wishing the scars from 10 surgeries disappeared. Or maybe the pain that stalled but couldn't stop an eventual Hall of Fame career would vanish.
The troubled knees "and the wind at Candlestick Park" cost him 150 homers, Cepeda believes.
"It's hard enough to play this game with two good knees," he said. No matter. Cepeda still whacked 379 home runs, including a brilliant 10-year run from Rookie of the Year in 1958 with the Giants to a 1967 MVP award with St. Louis when he never hit under .297 and averaged 34 homers.