(Paul Mirengoff) On May 8, 1966, the St. Louis Cardinals obtained slugging first baseman Orlando Cepeda from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for left-handed pitcher Ray Sadecki. I was out of the country on the anniversary of the deal, but don't want to miss the opportunity to commemorate what was probably the most consequential baseball trade of the decade. To understand the deal, we need to look back to 1964 when
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