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The winner of a record 12 Gold Gloves, Clemente had two phenomenal throws during the victorious 1971 World Series:
 
The winner of a record 12 Gold Gloves, Clemente had two phenomenal throws during the victorious 1971 World Series:
 
{{cquote| He made two breathtaking throws in the 1971 World Series. One was a strike from the warning track in right field to the plate, keeping Mark Belanger from scoring from first. The other was down the right-field line, where he spun and made a remarkable throw to third.<ref>https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28946140/tim-kurkjian-baseball-fix-never-forget-was-roberto-clemente-throwing</ref>}}
 
{{cquote| He made two breathtaking throws in the 1971 World Series. One was a strike from the warning track in right field to the plate, keeping Mark Belanger from scoring from first. The other was down the right-field line, where he spun and made a remarkable throw to third.<ref>https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28946140/tim-kurkjian-baseball-fix-never-forget-was-roberto-clemente-throwing</ref>}}
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As ''Fansided'' observed in a well-written article in 2018:
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{{cquote|Roberto Clemente had a cannon, a howitzer, a bazooka. Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully once said, “Roberto Clemente could field a ball in [[New York]] and throw out a guy in [[Pennsylvania]].”
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Fifty years ago today, the fleet feet of [[Willie Mays]] challenged the awesome arm of Roberto Clemente and lost. Mays remembered the situation in 1998, saying, “Roberto Clemente threw me out on a bang-bang play at third. I should have remembered what a tremendous arm he had.”<ref>https://calltothepen.com/2018/04/13/mlb-history-clemente-mays/</ref>}}
    
==Delaying his Major League Debut==
 
==Delaying his Major League Debut==
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