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Related: About this forumRoberto Clemente
"Pitch me outside, I'll hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you won't find the ball."
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Roberto Clemente (Original Post)
kairos12
Feb 2024
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FSogol
(46,510 posts)1. I was lucky enough to see him play. He was amazing.
I grew up a five minute walk from Forbes Field. A buck got you into the bleachers.
ProfessorGAC
(69,854 posts)4. Same Here
We'd go to maybe 3 Cubs games a year when I was a kid.
My dad loved Roberto, so for 5 or 6 years he'd target a game against the Pirates.
By the time I was 12, I knew enough as an outfielder, to see guys slowing down going into second, because they were NOT going to try for third and challenge that cannon of an arm. He could sling it!
patphil
(6,941 posts)2. Excellent ball player. Amazingly, he had exactly 3000 hits.
here's his stats:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clemero01.shtml
ProfessorGAC
(69,854 posts)5. Anotyer Nice Clemente Nugget
The following season, on July 25, 1956, at Forbes Field, Clemente erased a three-run, ninth-inning deficit with a bases-clearing inside-the-park home run,[29] thus becoming the firstand, as yet, onlyplayer in modern Major League history (since 1900) to hit a documented walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam.[30] Pittsburgh-based sportswriter John Steigerwald said that it "may have been done only once in the history of baseball."[31]
Pretty cool. A walk-off, inside the park slam!