"Clemente’s quite a ballplayer, isn’t he? Now you know why he was picked on the All-Star team. He’s as good an outfielder in right field as your Willie Mays in center. There isn’t anything he can’t do."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Danny Murtaugh, as quoted in “The Big Grand Slam: Clemente Was All Set” by Phil Berman, in The San Francisco Chronicle (Saturday, July 15, 1961), p. 1