Clemente was major league baseball’s first Latino superstar. In offering his heart, he...
Roberto Clemente won four batting titles and 12 Gold Glove Awards. He died New Year’s Eve 1972 trying to help earthquake victims.boarded the battered, overloaded DC-7 cargo plane in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the baseball world already knew how, on the field, Clemente’s speed could extend the boundaries of his game.
Clemente made the National League All-Star team 12 times, hit better than.300 in 13 seasons, won four batting titles and 12 Gold Gloves, lead the league in assists four times, compiled a.317 career batting average, played on two world championship teams, and won league and World Series MVP awards. In three months, on New Year’s Eve, he’d be dead. Of all Clemente’s magnificent gifts, his greatest was his heart. And in offering it, he gave his life.
It’s rare for an historically great athlete to die suddenly. People of a certain age can tell you where they were, 50 years ago today, when they heard of Clemente’s death.
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