I'm devastated. My all-time favorite player, both as a kid growing up and now. Such a great player... remember watching the NBC Monday Night Game of the Week and seeing him break the HR record, and I had been rooting for him for a number of years before, so that was the culmination. People forget that he was a true 5-tool player... stole 31 bases in 1963, won 3 Gold Gloves and would have won many more, except for the fact that Clemente overlapped him in RF. For me, the all-time HR king. I have a complete run of his Topps cards from 1954-76...
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