Roberto Clemente

"He played baseball we have never seen before, as if it were a punishment for the rest of the athlete." - Roger Angel

Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on 18 August 1934. He was a good youth in the athletics - and at the age of 17 he played in the Puerto Rican baseball league Santurce Crabbers. The Dodgers signed him in the second year and by 1954 he played for their third team in Montreal.

"Well, I told myself, there is a boy who can do something, and there are boys who can do whatever people lived in," Dodger Scout Clyde Scheforce said. "No one can be better than this, no one is better than this."

However, after the 1954 season, the Dodgers did not enter the major league lineup and tried to win Clement throughout the off-season. The pirates were taken away by him for $ 4,000 in the draft rule 5.

Clements seeks to find her way in the next five seasons to overcome the walls of injured words in a country where he is a citizen but no hometown. However, in 1960 Pirates And Clement became a mature right fielder, and 312 led Pirates to the World Series. In the classic fall, Clement did. 310 to help Pirates defeat the Yankees in seven games.

In the next seven years, Clement won four national league batting championships, NL's most valuable player award of 1966, and started a series of 12 consecutive Golden Globe awards in the right field.

In 1971, 37 - year - old Clemente led Pirates to the world series. Clement broke 0.414 and won another world title in Pittsburgh and won the most valuable player award in the series. "

At the end of the 1972 season, Clement created his 3000th career goal percentage and became the eleventh player to reach the milestone. Clement and Pirates acquired NL East in the same year, but they lost to the Red Army in five matches of the National League Championship Series.

On December 31, 1972, Clemente launched a small aircraft from Puerto Rico to Nicaragua to support earthquake relief. A heavy plane crashed near the coast of Puerto Rico, and Clement's body never recovered.

He was elected as the Hall of Fame in the 1973 special election and the election abandoned a mandatory waiting period of five years.

Jimmy Cannon, a columnist in American journal "American", wrote that "baseball survived." Because players like Clement are still performing their performance. "

San Juan Stadium in Puerto Rico was named Roberto Clemente Stadium in 1973; two baseball stadiums in Carolina, professional one, Roberto Clemente Stadium and Double A. The Sports Academy's Escuela de los Deportes has Double-A Baseball Park. Today, this stadium is called Ciudad Deportiva Roberto Clemente. For Clement, Pittsburgh Pirates is one of the most popular baseball teams in Puerto Rico. In Pittsburgh, Six Street Bridge was renamed to his memory. The city of Pittsburgh maintains Roberto Clemente Memorial Park along the North Shore Avenue on the north side of the city, including sculptor Eleanor Millerville's bronze relief. In 2007, Roberto Clement Museum opened in Lawrenceville district of Pittsburgh. Near the old Forbes stadium where he began his career, Pittsburgh renamed the street with his name.

New York State opened the Roberto Clemente State Park in Bronx in 1973. In Brentwood Suffolk, Timberline Town Park and the swimming pool were renamed Roberto Clement Park. His name is given to schools such as Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago, Roberto Clemente Charter School in Allentown, Roberto Clemente College in Pennsylvania, Detroit, Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Patterson, New Jersey, New Roberto Clemente Middle School. There is a secondary school called Roberto W. Clemente Middle School in Masaya in Nicaragua and Roberto Clemente Stadium in Germantown, Maryland. In addition, he is the same name as Newark in New York, Roberto Clemente Minor League in Brook Park, Roberto Clemente Institute of Independent Arts in New York (IS 195) and Clemente Leadership Association in New Mountain. Character Connecticut Haven Elementary school in Rochester, New York State was also named after Clemente.