"Johnny Pesky calls Clemente the best hitter since Ted Williams. "And Williams would be proud to have anybody say that," the Pirate coach added."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Johnny Pesky, as paraphrased and quoted in "The Scoreboard: Game-Winning Homer Cheers Sad Clemente" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, June 14, 1966), p. 42