Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1958 — Canadian born Willie O’Ree becomes the NHL’s first black player for the Boston Bruins. 1972 — The Lakers’ Jerry West, hits a ...

Neil Leifer/Sports Illustrated How The West ... Year Cepeda was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. / John G. Zimmerman/Sports Illustrated The Heart of a Giant: Orlando ...

1972 — The Lakers’ Jerry West, hits a last second, 20-foot jumper to lead the West team to a 112-110 NBA All-Star victory over the East, as he garners the MVP award. 1973 — Orlando Cepeda becomes the ...

Orlando Cepeda, Carl Erskine, Whitey Herzog, Luis Tiant, Fernando Valenzuela and WILLIE MAYS and basketball’s Sid Elliott, Cecil Skinner and Jerry West. Also, football’s Bill Battle ...

Orlando Cepeda, Luis Tiant and Carl Erskine, the last of the Boys of Summer. Of course, it wasn’t only baseball that took heavy loss – basketball greats Jerry West and Bill Walton died as did ...

Jerry West – NBA legend Jerry West ... He was 80 years old. Orlando Cepeda – Orlando Cepeda, the slugging first baseman nicknamed "Baby Bull" who became a Hall of Famer among the early ...

The NBA has never confirmed the open secret that the silhouette on the league’s logo is indeed Jerry West ... Also gone are Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, 86, of the San Francisco Giants ...