"They've been knocking me down all season in the National League and I've still gotten my share of base hits."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Commenting on the Yankees' pre-Series scouting report on Clemente ("Knock him down and forget him"); as quoted in "Change of Pace" by Bill Nunn, Jr. in The New Pittsburgh Courier (October 8, 1960), p. 26