"Aaron and Clemente would have been something else. We had Olmo as trade bait for Clemente, but a deal couldn’t be worked out."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Mickey Owen, recalling his unsuccessful attempt to team Clemente with Aaron, circa late 1953 (at which time Owen was managing in Puerto Rico), preceding by just a few months Milwaukee's similarly unsuccessful attempt to do the same; as quoted in Puerto Rico’s Winter League: A History of Major League Baseball’s Launching Pad (1995) by Thomas E. Van Hyning, p. 55