Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker was born in Barrio San Anton in Carolina, Puerto Rico on August 18, 1934. Roberto Clemente is remembered today as one of the game's best all-round right fielders, with one of the best arms in baseball. Often referred to as "The Great One," Clemente was the first Latin American player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Roberto Clemente - Baseball Hall of Fame - 1973
Roberto Clemente was the youngest of the seven children of Melchor and Luisa Clemente. His father was a foreman on a sugarcane plantation, and his mother ran a grocery store for plantation workers. His family was poor, and Clemente worked hard as a youngster, delivering milk and taking other odd jobs to earn extra money for the family. There was still time, however, for his first love - baseball - which he played on the sandlots of his home town in Puerto Rico until he was eighteen years old. Read More....
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