Today being Roberto Clemente Day, does anyone remember...

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the exact quote of Hank Aaron when the National League manager during the All-Star game, I forget which year in the mid-'60s, asked Hank to make out the line-up card since he knew the players better.

Hank said (and I'm paraphrasing) something to this effect: "Sure. Roberto will lead off and get on; Ernie (Banks) will bat second and move him over; Willie (Mays) will bat third and bring him in; I'll bat clean-up and knock in Willie."

That's all I remember. He may have had McCovey next and Cepeda in there somewhere. Musial had retired by then.

Also there's a push to get Clemente's number 21 permanently retired from baseball. I'm all for it. Funny how Jackie Robinson's number 42 is retired, which is exactly double Clemente's 21.

Oh, I must add that Clemente was not only a great humanitarian (he died on a flight enroute to take food and aid to a Carribean nation hit by a hurricane I believe), he was also an activist who hosted Martin Luther King Jr. when he visited Puerto Rico.