Roberto Clemente With His Team Jen Fell in a Hole Again


		Legacy As a professional person baseball game player, Clemente ranks among the best of all time. He was, in baseball parlance, a "complete role player" and his record proves it in multiples. In addition to the Nearly Valuable Player Laurels, Clemente received 12 Aureate Glove Awards, iv National League batting titles, 12 All-Star Game selections, 2 Globe Series Championships, and reached the iii,000-hit milestone. Only 10 players in the history of the major leagues recorded 3,000 hits before Roberto. The highlight of his long and prosperous career came in 1971, when he earned the World Series MVP Award for his superb performance in the Fall Classic against the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles. Clemente batted .414, hitting two home runs, and turned in several standout defensive plays to carry the Pirates to i of the most surprising results in World Series history. With a massive tv audience witnessing the seven games of this historic Serial, Clemente gained the kind of nationwide recognition that had eluded him throughout his career. But there's another Clemente record. It is written in cornerstones of schools, hospitals, and other public buildings, inscribed on monuments and statues, struck on coins, imprinted on collectibles and book covers — information technology is simply his name, Roberto Clemente, and it is bear witness of his affect beyond baseball game.
		Citizen and Athlete Clemente became known for his fierce ethnic pride and for his unusual capacity to bear a much larger identity—not just for Puerto Rico only for all of Latin America. It was a responsibility he embraced and carried with nobility and beauteous grace. He didn't see himself as merely a representative of Latin America to the world through baseball. He saw his career in baseball game every bit a way to help Latin Americans — peculiarly underprivileged Puerto Ricans — brand their lives improve. "Always, they said Baby Ruth was the best at that place was. They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Baby Ruth was an American histrion. What nosotros needed was a Puerto Rican actor they could say that about, someone to expect up to and try to equal." -Roberto Clemente National League Most Valuable Thespian, 1966
		Philanthropist and Teacher Clemente's philanthropy was not calculated to gain public or private recognition. He but wanted to help people in need. For some, his generosity was financial; with others he freely shared his chiropractic cognition — learned as a effect of his own back injury in 1954; and for many others, especially children, Clemente's kindness came as gratis lessons in the game of baseball. Clemente always cared about children. Despite his busy schedule, he made time to agree baseball clinics for kids, especially for those from depression-income families. He dreamed of building a "Sports City" where Puerto Rican youth would have ready admission to facilities, coaching, and encouragement in many sports. It was some other way of working toward a Puerto Rico that was healthier, happier, and fairer. "Everyone knows I've been struggling all my life. I believe that every human beingness is equal, but ane has to fight difficult all the time to maintain that equality. -Roberto Clemente
His Meaning No single piece of work of art can articulate the full meaning of Clemente'south life, but for Puerto Ricans, a cairn by José Buscaglia, installed in Carolina, may be the most encompassing expression. Traditionally, cenotaphs are funerary monuments dedicated to heroes whose bodies are not recovered from the field of battle. So the very genre of Buscaglia's work honors Clemente as one who gave all for his state. In the centre panel, the lamb in Roberto'southward arms is the lamb from the Puerto Rican coat of arms. In his life and decease, Roberto lifted Puerto Rican identity to a new level in the world. The monument's inscription reads "Son of Carolina, Exemplary Citizen, Athlete, Philanthropist, Instructor, Hero of the Americas and the World. "I want to exist remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give." -Roberto Clemente