"I wanted the big club to put him on the roster. I told Buzzie Bavasi he would be drafted if put at Montreal, that he was a big leaguer right from the start. I canât divulge the reason he was left off the big club."
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Al Campanis, as quoted in "Scout Say Dodgers Tried to HIde Clemente" by Frank Eck (uncredited; Associated Press), in The Ogdensburg Journal (Tuesday, October 19, 1971), p. 6 â Comment: Accessible under Eck's byline in somewhat disjointed form at Newspapers.com, as "Clemente Recalled; Impressive From Start", in The Somerset Daily American (Wednesday, October 20, 1971), p. 17
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Roberto Clemente
baseball player
1934 â 1972 ¡ United States
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 â 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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