"You are going to a town where the best player in baseball is, but nobody knows it."
— Roberto Clemente

January 1, 1970

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Jimmy Cannon, speaking to newly hired Post-Gazette Pirates beat writer, Charley Feeney, in 1966; as quoted by Feeney in Remember Roberto: Clemente Recalled by Teammates, Family, Friends and Fans (1994) by Jim O'Brien, p. 418