"I was experimenting with a slider Tuesday night. After Roberto knocked it over the 406-foot mark in left field, I gave up on the pitch."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Sandy Koufax, revisiting the same failed experiment detailed in the previous day's Vanguard, this time for the benefit of the Pirates' faithful, in "Sidelights on Sports: Conversational Crumbs" by Al Abrams, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Thursday, September 12, 1963), p. 36