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Roberto Clemente (Original Post) kairos12 Feb 2024 OP
I was lucky enough to see him play. He was amazing. FSogol Feb 2024 #1
As was I. cloudbase Feb 2024 #3
Same Here ProfessorGAC Feb 2024 #4
Excellent ball player. Amazingly, he had exactly 3000 hits. patphil Feb 2024 #2
Anotyer Nice Clemente Nugget ProfessorGAC Feb 2024 #5

ProfessorGAC

(69,854 posts)
4. Same Here
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 08:59 PM
Feb 2024

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!

ProfessorGAC

(69,854 posts)
5. Anotyer Nice Clemente Nugget
Thu Feb 8, 2024, 09:03 PM
Feb 2024
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 first—and, as yet, only—player 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!
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