"Between the umpires and the shadows, the hitters didn’t have a chance. Roberto Clemente struck out four times. That tells you how tough it was."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Tony Perez, as quoted in “ALL-STAR GAME PITCHERS' PARADISE '67 Game Was a Mound of Fun With Twilight Start and a Sympathetic Umpire” by Ross Newhan, in The Los Angeles Times (Monday, July 10, 1989), p. 8