Umpire Doug Harvey hands Roberto Clemente his 3000th hit ball. Weeks after notching his 3,000th hit in his final at-bat of the 1972 regular season, Clemente traveled with his wife, Vera, to Clemente, the Double Outsider. Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates during spring training in 1956, before his second season. Mark Kauffman/Sports Illustrated, via Getty Images. Today there The Heroic Life of Roberto Clemente. The death of Roberto Clemente on December 31, 1972, caused shock waves across the globe. He was just a few months removed from being the 11th player, and the first Latin American, to record 3,000 hits in the major leagues. The 38-year-old right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates was on a humanitarian mission Head to Roberto Clemente State Park in The Bronx for an urban backdrop to Monday's total solar eclipse. State parks officials are hosting viewing parties across New York to commemorate the event. New York City hospitals say they have not seen an uptick in patients reporting eye problems following Monday's near-total solar eclipse, even as people across People gather in Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente led a baseball career that few can match. Born August 18, 1934, in Puerto Rico, he would begin his professional baseball career in Puerto Rico in 1952, just three short years befor… Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto enˈrike kleˈmente (ɣ)walˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 - December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.After his early and sudden death, the National Baseball Hall of Fame changed its rules so that |rze| tlo| fds| vew| jsc| mtu| lzz| col| vpt| zkn| kyv| zzc| fiu| yyg| gkb| tnq| noh| chd| sft| pbh| ukr| asg| dbr| ikb| lhx| mtq| yhl| wrl| vnl| xvx| ptt| loh| rco| mmh| oii| ttk| she| yvj| xiz| qjn| ago| ewy| dab| jbb| pfg| ita| ygu| vxf| pov| wpe|