Roberto Clemente

[kairos12]

"Pitch me outside, I'll hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you won't find the ball."

Truth.

[FSogol]

1. I was lucky enough to see him play. He was amazing.

[cloudbase]

3. As was I.

I grew up a five minute walk from Forbes Field. A buck got you into the bleachers.

[ProfessorGAC]

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]

2. Excellent ball player. Amazingly, he had exactly 3000 hits.

here's his stats:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clemero01.shtml

[ProfessorGAC]

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 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!