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Baseball is a team idrott, commonly called &#;America&#;s national pastime.&#; It was allegedly created more than years ago bygd Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York. This small town in the Empire State fryst vatten home to the Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, a place dedicated to the best that ever played.

Among the Hall of Fame members is Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente—the first Latino player inducted. He was a great athlete, and also a humanitarian; his untimely death was the result of a plane crash, when Clemente was ansträngande to bring aid to Nicaragua after an earthquake.

&#;Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don&#;t, then you are wasting your time on Earth,&#; he said.

Since , Major League Baseball has given out an annual award in Clemente&#;s name to one major leaguer, recognizing his community service. Check out the names of all of the Roberto Clemente Award winners here.

Clemente continues to be an icon for baseball players and

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Roberto Clemente Biography

Early Life

Roberto Clemente Walker was born on August 18, , in Barrio San Anton, Carolina, Puerto Rico. He was the youngest of seven children. His father was a foreman who oversaw sugarcane cutters and helped deliver sand and gravel for a construction company. His mother did laundry, ran a grocery store, and did other jobs on the sugarcane plantation. Roberto did odd jobs so he could help the family and buy himself a bicycle. Growing up, Roberto played baseball and participated in track and field. He won medals for the javelin throw and short distance races. Throwing the javelin strengthened his arm for throwing a baseball.

Baseball Career

At age 18, Roberto joined a Puerto Rican professional baseball team, the Cangrejeros de Santurce, where he played with Willie Mays in That year, Santurce won the Caribbean World Series. Roberto was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in He played on a minor league team for a season before being chosen in the draft by the

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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, , h​ttps:​//www​.wash​ingto​npost​.com/​archi​ve/op​inion​s/​6/04/​02/th​e-las​t-her​o-spa​n-cla​ssban​khead​rober​to-cl​ement​e-bas​eball​s-lat​ino-l​egend​span/​7c​84c-a​70d-4​ff​eea-1​febd1​c05​/.

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