"Bobby could do more things than any player I've ever seen. I used to coach third base for Preston Gomez in San Diego. Once he told me, "Now, I want you to know about Clemente cause heāll play a game with you. If we have a man on first and thereās a base hit to right field, heāll pretend to be loafing in on it. The moment you start to wave for that runner to come to third ā look out, thereās gonna be an explosion." Well, sure enough, I donāt know what inning it was, but the situation came up, he put me in his trap and I did it. And let me tell you, my runner was about two-thirds of the way to third when the ball arrived. I came into the dugout and Preston was laughing. He said, āWhat did I tell you?ā But that was Roberto. There wasnāt anything he couldnāt do."
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Sparky Anderson, as quoted in That Was Part of Baseball Then: Interviews With 24 Former Major League Baseball Players, Coaches & Managers (2002) by Victor Debs, p. 191
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Roberto Clemente
baseball player
1934 ā 1972 Ā· United States
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 ā December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican Major League baseball player from 1955 through 1972, exclusively with the Pittsburgh Pirates. A posthumous inductee to the National Baseball Hall of Fame (following his fatal plane crash on December 31, 1972, en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua), Clemente became both the first Latin American and the first C
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