“I am having a plaque put on the front of my house. It will say, "To God, Mother, Father and Baseball."”

—  Roberto Clemente

As quoted in "Clemente's Smiling All the Way to the Bank" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/61275081/ by Milton Richman (UPI), in The San Bernardino County Sun (Tuesday, December 6, 1966), p. 27
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1966</big>

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