"The best player in the game today. I’d have to take him over Aaron and all the rest... I've only been in the league a little over a year and a half, but I don't think I've ever seen him make an easy out."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Dave Bristol, as quoted in “Hats Off! N.L. Player of the Week – Roberto Clemente” by Les Biederman, in The Sporting News (June 3, 1967), p. 23