“There must be the best 169-pound slugger in baseball.”

—  Dick Stuart

On Roberto Clemente; as quoted in "Clemente’s Clouting Keeps Corsairs Hot on Trail of Treasure" by Les Biederman, in The Sporting News (May 31, 1961)

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