https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/02/07/march-17-1969-cardinals-trade-orlando-cepeda-for-joe-torre/ A St. Louis Cardinals History Website Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/02/07/march-17-1969-cardinals-trade-orlando-cepeda-for-joe-torre/#comment-300 Sun, 22 May 2022 01:14:39 +0000 https://www.stlredbirds.com/?p=3098#comment-300 […] the 1971 National League MVP, already was familiar with replacing a Cardinals legend. After all, he arrived in St. Louis in the trade that sent 1967 MVP Orlando Cepeda to the Braves. Over six seasons wearing the birds on […]

]]> https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/02/07/march-17-1969-cardinals-trade-orlando-cepeda-for-joe-torre/#comment-291 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:26:19 +0000 https://www.stlredbirds.com/?p=3098#comment-291 […] homers and 73 RBIs, a far cry from his MVP numbers a year earlier. On March 17, 1969, the Cardinals traded Cepeda to the Braves for Joe Torre. The trade marked the end of the “El Birdos” era of the Cardinals, though […]

]]> https://www.stlredbirds.com/2022/02/07/march-17-1969-cardinals-trade-orlando-cepeda-for-joe-torre/#comment-234 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 04:00:38 +0000 https://www.stlredbirds.com/?p=3098#comment-234 […] at Cardinals camp, Torre spoke to him and, drawing upon his own experience as a player (he was traded to the Cardinals in 1969 and to the Mets in 1974), told the media that Whiten just needed to adapt to the shock of […]

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