The Legendary Life of Roberto Clemente | Wealth Wednesday

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Latino highlight:

ROBERTO CLEMENTE

Roberto Clemente born in Aug 18 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico

• youngest of 7 kids
• Worked with his father in the sugar cane field
  • At just 8 years old
• He found a passion for baseball very early on
  • Was also a high level athlete as a javelin thrower and high jumper

In 1954

• he signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers- didn’t play much
• The next year he signed to be Pittsburgh Pirates
  • This is only 7 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball

Had a incredible career - 18 years

• the former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder who reached 3,000 hits his final season and is considered one of the greatest Latin players of all time?
• 12 gold gloves and 12 all star appearances
• Clemente was the first Hispanic player to accomplish many feats in the majors. He was the first to win a World Series as a starter,
• be named league MVP, be named World Series MVP and
• be elected to the Hall of Fame.
• Met with Martin Luther King Jr in PR

Post career

• true man of the people
• Always was giving back and supporting kids and fighting for civil rights
• Held free baseball clinics for children in Puerto Rico.
• In 1972 an earthquake struck Nicaragua. Roberto had managed a Puerto Rican all-star team in Managua, and he had friends there.
• He became the honorary chairman of an earthquake relief committee that raised $150,000 and gathered nearly 26 tons of relief supplies.
  • The first plan was hijacked and stolen
  • So Clemente went on the second one
  • Tragically, on New Year's Eve, he died when the plane he was on to deliver the supplies crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
  • He was only 38 years old

Post life

• The Roberto Clemente award is given to one player who embodies: character, community involvement and positive impact on and off the field
• MLB honors Roberto Clemente every year on Sept 15.
• The Roberto Clemente Museum
  • In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

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