Roberto Clemente as a Brooklyn Dodger. Wow. Somehow, the mere act of issuing a card listing Clemente as a Dodger makes me feel a little better about the Dodgers blowing the chance of having one of the greatest right fielders in history playing for their franchise. If you don't know the story, Clemente was signed by the Dodgers and sent to their minor league team in Montreal for the 1954 season. He played 87 games for Montreal, but batted only 148 times, mostly because the Dodgers were trying to hide him. You see, at the time there was a baseball rule that said any player who received a $4,000 bonus had to be on the major league roster within a year, or another team got to draft him. The Dodgers were victims of their own success as they didn't have any room on their roster for Clemente with such a packed lineup. The Pirates weren't tricked by the Dodgers' hiding tactics and snapped him up in November 1954. It just shows the Dodgers didn't make all their dumb-ass...
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