I had a very superficial understanding of Roberto Clemente’s life. I knew he was a great player. I knew he was a Hall of Famer. And I knew that he had died at age 38 in a plane accident while ...

Three months later, on New Year’s Eve, he died in a plane crash while ... who he was as a human being,” said Luis Clemente, 56, one of the late Roberto and Vera Clemente’s three sons.

He introduced Roberto Clemente Commemorative Coin Act in January Clemente played 18 seasons for the Pirates between 1955 and 1972, recording exactly 3,000 hits. He died on New Year's Eve 1972 in a ...

With exactly 3,000 hits, Roberto Clemente is the measure of greatness in baseball. The next season Brooklyn Dodgers scout Al Campanis held a clinic and Clemente impressed Campanis enough that he ...

In fact, he died a hero, trying to help victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua in late 1972. To honor him, the league ...

they founded the Roberto Clemente Foundation to help disadvantaged youth. Here, Clemente family members describe their famous relative and his legacy. The morning [he asked me on our first date ...

In 1966, though the Pirates were edged out of the playoffs, he hit .317 with 29 home runs and 119 runs batted in. Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates was elected the most valuable player in ...