"At the time, Bob Fontaine, one of the Pirate scouts who signed him, said [Jim] Aldredge could be the next Roberto Clemente."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Bob Fontaine (Pirates scout, 1951-1968), circa fall 1956, as paraphrased in A Baseball Career That Ended In . . . A Split Second: The Life and Faith of Jim Aldredge (2015) by Jerry Guibor, p. viii