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  1. Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker ( Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto enˈrike kleˈmente (ɣ)walˈkeɾ]; [a] August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder. After his early and sudden death, the ...

  2. Mar 8, 2024 · It’s been a half-century since Roberto Clemente was alive, and most Americans remember how he played — with joyous and reckless abandon — and how he died, on-board a plane flying supplies ...

  3. Dec 27, 2022 · Clemente died at age 38 on Dec. 31, 1972, when his plane crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico as he was delivering relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He died a future Baseball ...

  4. Dec 27, 2022 · Unforgettable Roberto Clemente. His death in a plane crash meant a triple loss: for Puerto Rico, because he was a national hero; for sports, because he was a baseball superstar; and for the whole world, because he was a kind and compassionate man. By María Isabel Cáceres.

  5. Mar 12, 2024 · 1 hour 45 minutes. The numbers for Roberto Clemente are fairly phenomenal. But they’re inadequate. Roberto Clemente is in a pantheon of sports figures because of the trail he blazed for Latino ...

  6. Roberto Clemente’s Story Ballplayer. MVP. Veteran. Humanitarian. Husband. Father. Legend. Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker is one of the greatest athletes and humanitarians of the 20th century. Born August 18, 1934 in Barrio San Antón, Puerto Rico to laundress Luisa Walker and sugarcane laborer Melchor Clemente, Roberto represents the strength, perseverance, and honor of the Puerto […]

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  8. Dec 31, 2022 · Roberto Clemente Jr. stood with his hands delicately draped upon the shoulders of 93-year-old Wilkins resident Angie Gialloreto. The pair was reunited on a rainy afternoon on Saturday outside PNC Park in the shadow of the statue honoring Clemente Jr.’s late father — the legendary Pirates right fielder who died in an airplane crash while […]