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Roberto Clemente (Carolina, 18 de agosto de 1934 — Isla Verde, 31 de dezembro de 1972) foi um jogador de beisebol porto-riquenho que atuou durante toda a sua carreira na Major League Baseball pelo Pittsburgh Pirates. Clemente foi um dos primeiros jogadores da América Latina a atuar nas grandes ligas norte-americanas.
- Roberto Clemente Walker
Biography. Despite playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates and being established in Pittsburgh for many years, [3] Roberto Clemente insisted his wife Vera return to Puerto Rico so Roberto Jr. could be born there a day before his own birthday. The first seven years of Clemente's life were spent between Puerto Rico and Pittsburgh. [4] .
- Early Life
- Professional Career
- Charity Work and Death
- Career Overall
- Honors and Legacy
- Unpublished Autobiography
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Clemente was born on August 18, 1934, in Barrio San Antón in Carolina, Puerto Rico, to Luisa Walker and Melchor Clemente. He was the youngest of seven siblings (three were from his mother's previous marriage). During Clemente's childhood, his father worked as a foreman for sugar canecrops located in the municipality, located in the northeastern par...
Puerto Rican baseball
Clemente's professional career began at age 18 when he accepted a contract from Pedrín Zorilla with Cangrejeros de Santurce ("Crabbers"), a winter league team and franchise of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League(LBPPR). Clemente signed with the team on October 9, 1952. He was a bench player during his first season but was promoted to the Cangrejeros' starting lineup the following season. During this season he hit .288 as the team's leadoff hitter. While Clemente was playing in the P...
Minor league baseball
At the time of Clemente's signing, the bonus rule implemented by Major League Baseballwas still in effect. The rule stipulated that when a major league team signed a player to a contract with a signing bonus in excess of $4,000 ($55,000 today), the team was required to keep that player on their 25-man active roster for two full seasons and failure to comply with the rule would result in the team losing the rights to that player's contract, and the player would then be exposed to the waiver wi...
Major League Baseball
For all but the first seven weeks of his major league career, Clemente wore number 21, so chosen because his full name of Roberto Clemente Walker had that many letters. For his first few weeks, Clemente wore the number 13, as his teammate Earl Smithwas wearing number 21. It was later reassigned to Clemente. During the off-seasons (except the 1958–59, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1971–72, and 1972–73 seasons), Clemente played professionally for the Cangrejeros de Santurce, Criollos de Caguas, an...
Clemente spent much of his time during the off-season involved in charity work. When Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, was affected by a massive earthquake on December 23, 1972, Clemente (who visited Managua three weeks before the quake) immediately set to work arranging emergency relief flights. He soon learned, however, that the aid package...
At the time of his death, Clemente had established several records with the Pirates, including most triples in a game (three) and hits in two consecutive games (ten). He won 12 Gold Glove Awards and shares the record of most won among outfielders with Willie Mays. Clemente was an All-Star for 13 seasons, selected to 15 All-Star Games.[c] He won the...
On March 20, 1973, the Baseball Writers' Association of America held a special election for the Baseball Hall of Fame. They voted to waive the waiting period for Clemente, due to the circumstances of his death, and posthumously elected him for induction into the Hall of Fame, giving him 393 out of 424 available votes, for 92.7% of the votes.[d] Cle...
In November 1971, Post-Gazette Sports Editor Al Abrams reported that an as-told-to autobiography of the Pirate right fielder was in the planning stages. As noted by Abrams in a previous column, prospective collaborators had been informed by Clemente that all interviews would be recorded to ensure that everything printed "will be the way I say it."B...
Clemente was married on November 14, 1964, to Vera Zabala at San Fernando Church in Carolina. The couple had three children: Roberto (often referred to as "Roberto Jr."), born in 1965; Luis Roberto, born in 1966; and Roberto Enrique, born in 1969.Vera Clemente died on November 16, 2019, aged 78. Clemente was a devout Catholic. In the 2010s, there w...
Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet, or Beisbol 101Roberto Clemente at the Baseball Hall of FameRoberto Clemente at the SABR Baseball Biography Project- .317
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13 de out. de 2021 · The Pittsburgh Pirates' star—the first Latino Hall of Famer in baseball—was a hero for his charity work and social activism prior to his death in a 1972 plane crash. By: Christopher Klein....
29 de dez. de 2022 · Five decades after his death, on Dec. 31, 1972, Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente’s influence is still felt in the baseball world and beyond.
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15 de set. de 2023 · On this 22nd annual Roberto Clemente Day, Bednar, Clemente Jr., Joe and Reynolds paid tribute to Clemente’s legacy by providing comfort packages for patients of the Glimmer of Hope Metastatic Breast Cancer Center, as well as helping provide breakfast to AHN Center Institute patients and staff.
31 de dez. de 2022 · Roberto Clemente was known as “The Great One,” a prideful man from Puerto Rico who won four National League batting titles and two World Series crowns with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was...
