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Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican Major League baseball player from 1955 through 1972, exclusively with the Pittsburgh Pirates. A posthumous inductee to the National Baseball Hall of Fame (following his fatal plane crash on December 31, 1972, en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua), Clemente became both the first Latin American and the first Caribbean player to be enshrined.
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He’s a take-charge catcher. He bosses the player throwing the ball – I tell you, that kid amazes me.
I sent eleven people there. All of them have families in Puerto Rico. The least I can do is be with them tonight.
The ball is hard to follow and it may give us some trouble. I really don't think it will make a difference in the outcome of the Series though.
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.
I only wiggle my neck when I'm ready for work. You never see me wiggling it when I'm off the field.
I like to work with kids. I'd like to work with kids all the time, if I live long enough.
I really don't know if I cried. If I did, it was tears not of pain, but of the sentiments my people are made of.
Sometimes people stop me in the street and ask me eef I am Harry Belafonte. When I say no, they get mad and walk away.
I get a kick out of people thinking I'm a very young fellow. They tell me, "You can play 10 more years." Yeah, I can play 10 more bad years.
The Yankees aren't going to frighten this club. Except for power, we are a better all-round club than the Yankees and this is going to pay off in a world championship for Pittsburgh in six games.
I want everybody in the world to know that this is the way I play all the time. All season, every season. I gave everything I had to this game.
Yes, my biggest game, but not my best game. My best game is when I drive in the winning run.
Thank you. I guess a fellow like me has to die to get voted in by the writers.
I will try to play this season out, then rest for a while. Then I will play some winter baseball, and if my back still hurts, I'll quit.
I didn’t swing hard at all. I think I’m going to do the same thing this year. We have two good hitters behind me now and I don’t have to swing so hard.
I think he had the best eye, best stance and sharpest cut of all the big leaguers playing in Puerto Rico. He also field real good and throw like a bullet.
"To hit in, it's okay; for power, it's not. If you get a line drive in this park, you're in good shape. It's best to hit to right field in this park because of the wall."
I give you bastards four minutes to get outside. They are honoring the greatest second baseman the game has ever known and anyone not out there in four minutes will have to fight me.
I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. What is a bad pitch? If I can hit it, it's not a bad pitch.
I go up to hit. I hear people say I swing at bad pitches. If I can hit it, it is not a bad pitch.