“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.”

— Roberto Clemente

Addressing unnamed cards-playing teammates on June 14, 1969, Bill Mazeroski Day https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P3kfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EVAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7484%2C5218474; as quoted in Reflections on Roberto (1994) by Phil Musick, p. 29
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1969</big>

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