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1934-1972

American baseball player

Hall of Fame baseball player Roberto Clemente was the first great Hispanic star in major league baseball.

Playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he had a lifetime average of .317 and 240 home runs; had four seasons

Roberto Clemente

with 200 or more hits; and won twelve Gold Gloves in eighteen seasons. He also won the National League Most Valuable Player award in 1966.

Life of roberto clemente

Clemente's stellar performance helped open the door for other Hispanic players to enter the sport.

Clemente was born in 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children, six of whom were boys. His father, Melchor, was a foreman of a sugar plantation and worked long hours in the fields, receiving a dollar a day.

When Clemente was young, he worked in the same fields, loading and unloading trucks.

Clemente began playing baseball with his friends at an early age, and continued to play through high school, where he starred in baseball a