A Roberto Clemente fan in Buffalo, who has a mural of the Hall of Famer on the side of his salon, finds out about an important connection between the city and the ballplayer:

Burgos had just been told of an all-but-forgotten piece of local baseball lore nailed down by Brian Frank, a baseball historian who founded the Herd Chronicles. On April 25, 1954, in the second game of an International League doubleheader against the Buffalo Bisons at the long-vanished Offermann Stadium, Clemente – then a 19-year-old outfielder with the old Montreal Royals – ripped his first hit of the season.

No one knew it at the time, but it was a gateway moment in baseball history. For the young Clemente, a native of Puerto Rico, it was the first regulation hit on the mainland of his professional career. Thousands more followed as he became one of the greatest players in the game.

BuffaloNews.com

The whole article is well worth your read, especially as this is the 50th anniversary of Clemente’s World Series MVP.