"I started using it a while back, mostly as a waste pitch. I got ahead of Bob Clemente and decided to go with the slider, and he knocked it out of the park."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Sandy Koufax, on his not yet perfected slider, as quoted in "Koufax Gains 23rd Win Along With New Pitches" by the Associated Press, Venice Vanguard (September 11, 1963), p. 23