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"Roberto Clemente threw me out on a bang-bang play at third. I should have remembered what a tremendous arm he had."

— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Willie Mays, recounting the only instance he could recall in his entire career of being thrown out going from first to third; as quoted in “Baseball’s Living Legend” by Glenn Dickey, in The Sporting News (October 26, 1998), p. 12 — Comment: If it indeed occurred only once, then the instance Mays is referring to took place in the seventh inning of a game played on April 13, 1968.

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Willie Mays, recounting the only instance he could recall in his entire career of being thrown out going from first to third; as quoted in “Baseball’s Living Legend” by Glenn Dickey, in The Sporting News (October 26, 1998), p. 12 — Comment: If it indeed occurred only once, then the instance Mays is referring to took place in the seventh inning of a game played on April 13, 1968.