Clemente and Mays

Willie Mays, left, and Roberto Clemente

Still two months shy of making his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Roberto Clemente teams with a young New York Giant named Willie Mays 69 years ago today for a pair of home runs to lead the Santurce Crabbers of Puerto Rico over Magallanes of Venezuela 4-2 in the championship game of the 1955 Caribbean World Series in Caracas.

The future Hall of Fame outfielders compete against each other in the National League through the end of Clemente's career in 1972, when the two meet again after Clemente records his 3,000th and final career hit in a game against the New York Mets.