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To: fugazi

Clemente was the best I ever saw. Others have better stats, but Clemente was hurt by playing much of his career in cavernous Forbes Field (456 ft to straightaway CF IIRC). He would be top 10 all time had he played in a normal park.

I can still picture him, dragging his butt to the plate like every bone in his body hurt, twitching his neck and setting up in the very back of the batter’s box, and ripping a low and away pitch into the right center gap.....or sliding into a catch in RF, popping up and throwing a strike to home plate to throw out some fool that tried to run on him.


16 posted on 09/30/2019 7:23:21 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

July 25, 1956 Roberto Clemente hit an inside the ball park, grand slam, walk off, homerun.


17 posted on 10/01/2019 5:45:35 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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