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Latino highlight:
ROBERTO CLEMENTE
Roberto Clemente born in Aug 18 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico
- youngest of 7 kids
- Worked with his father in the sugar cane field
- He found a passion for baseball very early on
- Was also a high level athlete as a javelin thrower and high jumper
In 1954
- he signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers- didn’t play much
- The next year he signed to be Pittsburgh Pirates
- This is only 7 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball
Had a incredible career - 18 years
- the former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder who reached 3,000 hits his final season and is considered one of the greatest Latin players of all time?
- 12 gold gloves and 12 all star appearances
- Clemente was the first Hispanic player to accomplish many feats in the majors. He was the first to win a World Series as a starter,
- be named league MVP, be named World Series MVP and
- be elected to the Hall of Fame.
- Met with Martin Luther King Jr in PR
Post career
- true man of the people
- Always was giving back and supporting kids and fighting for civil rights
- Held free baseball clinics for children in Puerto Rico.
- In 1972 an earthquake struck Nicaragua. Roberto had managed a Puerto Rican all-star team in Managua, and he had friends there.
- He became the honorary chairman of an earthquake relief committee that raised $150,000 and gathered nearly 26 tons of relief supplies.
- The first plan was hijacked and stolen
- So Clemente went on the second one
- Tragically, on New Year's Eve, he died when the plane he was on to deliver the supplies crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
- He was only 38 years old
Post life
- The Roberto Clemente award is given to one player who embodies: character, community involvement and positive impact on and off the field
- MLB honors Roberto Clemente every year on Sept 15.
- The Roberto Clemente Museum
- In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
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