"We can beat the Pirates because they no longer have Roberto Clemente. Nobody will know what Clemente meant to them until this year when they have to do without him. We can beat the Pirates without Clemente, and we are better than the Cubs.”"
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Rube Walker (New York Mets pitching coach, 1968-1981), as quoted in “Nice Guy Rube Still Thinks of Hodges Every Day” by Merrell Whittlesey, in The Sporting News (March 10, 1973), p. 54