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Roberto Clamente was a Puerto Rican-born Major League Baseball player. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is famous for the following:

  • National League Most Valuable Player (1966)
  • 3000 Career hits
  • 12-time Gold Glove recipient
  • Led the league in batting average for 4 of his 18 years as a player
  • First Hispanic player to win a World Series ring as a starter
  • Selected to play in the All Star game 12 years in a row
  • Inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame (1973 - posthumously)
  • First Latin-American inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • Only player to have had the mandatory 5 year waiting period for HoF induction waived.
  • Awarded for his humanitarian work (Posthumously)
    • the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002)
    • Congressional Gold Medal (1973)
    • Presidential Gold Medal (1973)

Clamente gave back to the community as well and was heavily involved in charity work and relief efforts. He was killed in a plane crash on December 31, 1972 delivering relief supplies to Nicaragua after an earthquake.

The Roberto Clamente Coliseum commemorates him in San Juan (Rio Piedras).

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