Sports great who said "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be" Crossword Clue

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Sports great who said "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. United States baseball player (born 1925)

Hint 2: Clue Definition

PERFECT (adjective)
1. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
2. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
PERFECT (verb)
1. make perfect or complete
PERFECT (noun)
1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

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Across

1. Basketball's quadruple double, e.g

7. Not done naturally, in a way

13. Prosciutto, e.g.

15. Player in the A.L. East

16. Image on a South African Krugerrand

17. Whip up

18. Corsair

19. Loses power

21. Something typically left in the U.S., but not in Japan

22. Site with a "Craft Supplies & Tools" category

23. It's a short walk from home

25. "Who ___?" (informal question)

26. Item not found much in cars nowadays

28. Many an M.B.A.'s undergrad major, informally

29. Bad thing to blow

31. Item that might be on a list

33. For a song

35. "About damn time!"

37. Show again, as a historical event

39. "How you ___?" ("Friends" catchphrase)

40. "Hot-diggity" or "Cool it"

41. Obfuscated

43. Attire often used in filming C.G.I. scenes, informally

46. Home of the Cotahuasi Canyon, which is more than two miles deep

47. With 48-Across, cousin of sleet

48. See 47-Across

49. Tribal spiritualist

51. Begin listening to a podcast, say

53. PepsiCo product

55. How Mario introduces himself in video games

56. Really stands out

57. Be on the precipice

58. Historical records

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Down

1. Not pay as one goes

2. Freedom of expression?

3. Like wetlands, typically

4. Chilling, maybe

5. God who wears the belt Megingjörd

6. Big fat mouth

7. Dressing targets

8. Target of the 1890 Sherman Act

9. Some digital assistants, informally

10. Pokémon tagline

11. Ralph who wrote the novel "Juneteenth"

12. Spot for cannonballs

13. Minded

14. People always getting favorable news coverage

20. Org. with a commissioner

23. To-do

26. Sierra Nevadas, e.g.

27. Handful on the farm

30. Country represented by the Black Star of Africa

31. Heaven on Earth?

32. Dial

34. Rear End

35. Fess up

36. Totes adorbs

38. Philippics

40. __ generis

42. Features of the sci-fi planet Arrakis

44. Of the highest quality

45. More reasonable

46. "Animal skin," in Aleut

49. Eminem hit whose title became a neologism for "fan"

50. Eritrea's locale in Africa

52. Inhale, so to speak

54. Therapists' org.

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