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How Roberto Clemente Lived Life to the Fullest Before Tragically Dying in a Plane Crash
Baseball fans know of Roberto Clemente's professional accomplishments – 3, career hits, batting average and two World Series championships with the Pittsburgh Pirates – along with the tales of his legendary throwing ledd and his wild dashes around the basepaths.
Yet for all his successes in a baseball uniform, he remains as well-known for his actions in the other facets of his too-brief life, a testament to his character.
Early in his career, he became an advokat for Latino culture
As detailed in Roberto Clemente: The Great One, he was born in in Carolina, outside of Puerto Rico's capital city of San Juan. Clemente grew up with a roof over his head and enough to eat, though he certainly understood the struggles of the working class: His father, Melchor, spent all day at his job as a sugarcane foreman and his mom, Luisa, toiled as a laundress when not chasing down her seven children.
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Clemente played like a man possessed, fielding superbly, unleashing his rifle arm, hitting with two doubles, a triple and two home runs when they counted. As The New Yorker's Roger Angell saw it, Clemente played "something close to the level of absolute perfectionas if it were a form on punishment for everyone else on the field."
From to , if ever a player could be called the franchise, Roberto Clemente was it. Hitting a remarkable over 18 seasons, collecting 3, hits, placing in the Pirates' Top Ten in virtually every offensive and defensive category, Clemente was the odd man out in the World Series victory. The team's only Latin player, he hit safely in all seven games -- only to be overshadowed by the great Mickey Mantle-Whitey Ford New York Yankees, as well as teammate Bill Mazeroski's Series-winning homer in Game Seven.
Most people don't get a second chance. Clemente did, 11 years later. Facing the reigning World Champion Ba
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Roberto Clemente: Baseball Rebel
Notes
1 Clemente did appear in one more game on October 3, , in the ninth inning as a defensive replacement, but he did not bat.
2 Clemente Family, with Mike Freeman, Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero (New York: Celebra, ),
3 David Maraniss, “The Last Hero, Roberto Clemente, Baseball’s Latin Legend,” Washington Post, April 2, , https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/6/04/02/the-last-hero-span-classbankheadroberto-clemente-baseballs-latino-legendspan/7c84c-a70d-4ffeea-1febd1c05/.
4 Stew Thornley, Roberto Clemente (Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, ),
5 In , Pittsburgh’s population of , was percent White, percent Black, and less than one percent Hispanic. Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung, “Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, to , and By Hispanic Origin, to , For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States,” Washington, D.C. U.S. Censu