"Blass, if you pitch me inside, I will hit…" — Roberto Clemente

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“Blass, if you pitch me inside, I will hit forty-three home runs a year, thirty-seven of them off you!”

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Source:: Circa 1970, '71 or '72, responding to the novel approach facetiously suggested by teammate Steve Blass, were he ever to be traded from the Pirates; as quoted in "A Teammate Remembers Roberto Clemente” by Steve Blass, as told to Phil Musick,
Type:: quote
Confidence:: 0.60
Indexed:: 2026-07-04
Hash:: 3422b078026b76d48906e2b19f997466947dbc4896d1688ff11794d6fa6e7945

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