"I have more respect for this man than any of my previous managers, and I played for Fred Haney, Danny Murtaugh and Bobby Bragan. This fellow makes me feel that he really appreciates what I do. When he has something to tell you, he tells you in front of everybody. You donāt hear it from some newspaperman. I donāt see why people say he has a big mouth. He knows this business real good and he is doing a great job. He works with the players and he gives them more confidence. Matty Alou never did anything until he came to this man. Donn Clendenon is having his best year and also Willie Stargell. And me, too. That is the reason I want to win so bad. I never played with a club that put out 100 percent like this one. If somebody gets down he comes and talks to the others. No matter what happens, we get together and solve everything. I donāt even think we tried this hard to win in 1960 when they won the pennant and the World Series."
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As quoted in "Walker, Clemente Bury Hatchet, Spread Praise" by the Associated Press, in The Spartanburg Herald (Wednesday, September 28, 1966), p. 12
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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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