"They are honoring a great one in Clemente. I have been watching his career ever since he joined the Pittsburgh club. Roberto should wind up as one of the all-time stars before he is through."

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Speaking with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports editor Al Abrams on July 9, 1961, at Forbes Field, while both waited to speak at the second annual Freedom Jubilee, sponsored by Pittsburgh's Central Baptist Church; as quoted in "Sidelights on Sports" by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (8 April 1968)