"After Stan Musial, Clemente was the best all-around ballplayer I ever saw. I placed him slightly above Willie Mays. Could Clemente ever throw! Even better than Mays – he was more accurate."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Hank Sauer, as quoted in We Played the Game: Memories of Baseball's Greatest Era (1994) by Danny Peary, p. 398