Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente
Right fielder
Born: August 18, 1934 Carolina , Puerto Rico
Died on: December 31, 1972 in San Juan , Puerto Rico
Suggested: Right	Threw: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 17,  1955  with the  Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB assignment
October 3,  1972  with the Pittsburgh Pirates
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 317
Hits	3,000
Home runs	240
Runs batted in	1.305
Teams
Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1972)
Awards
12 × All-Star (1960–1967, 1969–1972) 2 × World Series winners ( 1960 , 1971 ) 12 × Gold Glove Award (1961–1972) 4 × NL Batting Average Champion (1961, 1964, 1965, 1967) NL MVP (1966) World Series MVP (1971) Babe Ruth Award (1971)
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	1973
Quota	92.7%
Last update: November 16, 2014

Roberto Clemente (with the Spanish name Roberto Clemente Walker , born August 18, 1934 in Carolina , Puerto Rico , † December 31, 1972 in San Juan , Puerto Rico after a plane crash ) was a professional baseball player from Puerto Rico.

biography

Clemente played in Major League Baseball as a right fielder from 1955 to 1972 . Clemente spent the full 18 years of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates .

When there was no play, Clemente supported aid organizations that were helping in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries. He died on December 31, 1972 in a plane crash while trying to deliver relief supplies to those in need after an earthquake in Nicaragua .

Clemente was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the first Latin American . After Lou Gehrig , he was the second player in the Hall of Fame for whom the otherwise mandatory waiting period of five years was canceled. The MLB Commissioner's Award was renamed the Roberto Clemente Award in his honor in 1973 .

Clemente was the first Latin American player to win a World Series game as a starting player (1960), receive an MVP Award (1966), and was awarded the World Series MVP Award (1971).

Movie

In 2013, the film Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories by Richard Rossi , who grew up in Pittsburgh, was released. Rossi is a former pastor of the Pentecostal movement . He is now pursuing the goal of achieving the beatification of Clementes, which was taken up in the media many times.

literature

• Paul Roberto Walker: Pride of Puerto Rico. The life of Roberto Clemente . Harcourt Brace & Company, Sacramento, Calif 1988, ISBN 0-15-307557-0 , Chapter: The way of the Jibaro p. 3; Chapter: Where Are You Going, Momen? P. 20; Chapter: Tell the Man I Will Sign p. 25 (English).

Web links

Commons : Roberto Clemente  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Roberto Clemente  - Quotes

• Player information and statistics from Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  The Baseball Cube (English)
• Roberto Clemente in the Hall of Fame
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Latino Sports Legends )
• Society of American Baseball Research BioProject: Biography of Clemente on bioproj.sabr.org
• Roberto Clemente on Baseball-almanac.com
• The American Presidency Project: Remarks at a Ceremony Honoring Roberto Clemente. May 14, 1973

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tyler Kepner: Pittsburgh's Stirring Leap From the Abyss (English) . In: The New York Times , September 1, 2013. Retrieved September 2, 2013. 
2. ↑ Pirates Single Game Records ( English ) Pittsburgh Pirates. Retrieved January 9, 2008.
3. ↑ White House Dream Team: Roberto Walker Clemente ( English ) White House. Retrieved December 9, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
4. ↑ El vuelo solidario y temerario de Clemente ( English ) El Nuevo Diario. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 9, 2007. 
5. ^ Hispanic Heritage: Roberto Clemente ( English ) Gale Gengage Learning. Retrieved December 9, 2007.
6. ↑ Roberto Clemente plane ruled unfit ( English ) News.google.com. July 13, 1973. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
7. ↑ Roberto Clemente ( English ) Latino Legends in Sports. Archived from the original on October 26, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 9, 2007. 
8. ^ Baseball Hall of Famers: Roberto Clemente. Robert Kingsbury. S 7. 2003. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
9. ^ Roberto Clemente Plaque is Recast to Correct Cultural Inaccuracy; New One Travels to Puerto Rico (November 2000) ( English ) National Hall of Fame and Museum. September 18, 2000. Archived from the original on April 28, 2003. Retrieved on February 3, 2008.
10. ↑ Rizzo to Lester: Roberto Clemente Award 2017 Winner to 2018 Cubs Nominee. In: Medium. September 9, 2018, accessed January 31, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Marc Zarefsku: Baseball honors Roberto Clemente ( English ) National Baseball Hall of Fame. September 6, 2007. Archived from the original on February 7, 2008. Retrieved on December 10, 2007.
12. ↑ How an Olympic high jumper became Clemente in indie film . In: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . August 4, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
13. ↑ Matt Snyder: Saint Roberto? There's a canonization movement for Clemente. cbssports.com, January 12, 2015 (accessed November 4, 2016)
14. ↑ Effort To Make Roberto Clemente A Saint Gets Papal Show Of Support. ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pittsburgh Sun Times, January 9, 2015 (accessed November 4, 2016) 
15. ↑ Heather Adams: Roberto Clemente, the next saint? Washington Post, June 17, 2014 (accessed November 4, 2016)