"I would have to do it by categories. I was a center fielder. So I would say Roberto Clemente."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Willie Mays, again asked who, excluding himself, was the best he ever saw, as quoted in "A Love Affair with Baseball" by Will Grimsley (AP), in The Nyack Journal-News (January 24, 1979), p. 7E