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17. Roberto Clemente
| The slashing swing that could reach any pitch, the helmet-flying fury on the base paths, the jaw-dropping throws from that classic whirl-and-fire move in rightfield ... all Clemente signatures. Yet he is best defined by his grace off the field -- he perished in a New Year's Eve airplane crash in 1972 on a relief mission to Nicaragua. Gone too soon with exactly 3,000 hits and far too many lives touched to count. |
Photograph by Walter Iooss
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