Roberto Clemente
18 August 1934 – 31 December 1972
Roberto Clemente (1934-1972) was a Puerto Rican baseball right fielder who played his entire eighteen-season Major League career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He won two World Series titles, the 1966 National League Most Valuable Player award and twelve Gold Gloves, and reached 3,000 career hits in his final regular-season game. He died in a plane crash off Puerto Rico while accompanying relief supplies to earthquake-stricken Nicaragua.
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Life events
The youngest of seven children of a sugar cane plantation foreman.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgJoined the Puerto Rican winter league club while still a teenager.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPlayed a season with the Montreal Royals before Pittsburgh took him in the Rule 5 draft in November.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAppeared in his first game at Forbes Field against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPittsburgh defeated the New York Yankees in seven games; Clemente hit safely in every game of the series.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple married in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and had three sons.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgReceived the award after a season in which he batted .317 with 29 home runs.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPittsburgh beat the Baltimore Orioles in seven games.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA double at Three Rivers Stadium in what proved to be his last regular-season at-bat.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe overloaded aircraft carrying earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua crashed shortly after take-off; his body was never recovered.
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