"I say Roberto Clemente won that game for Pittsburgh. Simply by being Roberto Clemente and running out a ground ball the way he always has since the day he began playing ball 30 years ago. I had only one thought watching Clemente run down to first base. I wondered what Alex Johnson was thinking while watching the whole thing on TV."
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(UPI), "Roberto Clemente: The One And Only (And Scribe's Poll Clearly Shows It)," The Beaver County Times (Friday, October 15, 1971), p. B-4
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