He had written in his journal saying “I loved the game so much that even though our field was muddy and had many trees on it, I used to play many hours everyday. The fences were about 150 feet away from home plate, and I used to hit many homer. One day I hit ten home runs in a game and we started about 11:00 a.m. and finished at about 6:30 p.m.” In Puerto Rico Clemente sat the bench during his first year as a teenager with the Santurce Cangrejeros Baseball League. In 1952 the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Clemente to its Triple-A team in montreal with a bonus of $10,000, but he was used as a bench player. There is a rule in the MLB that says any player given a bonus of more than $4,000 had to be on a major league roster for his entire first season. On July 25, 1956, he became the only player ever to hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam. It was a 9-8 win over the Cubs at Forbes field. Clemente went through a couple injuries and also made it into the Hall of