Word: clementeã
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...been noted and honored with such frequency as to become perfunctory and cliché, saw the integration of baseball and with it, the opening of the door to greater integration in society. The deaths of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. had their baseball echo in Roberto Clemente??s death in 1972, which served as an explosive punctuation mark at the close of the “60s” and ushered in the era of what-do-we-do-now malaise, stagflation, oil shocks and Nixon’s demise. Finally, the economic boom...
...Clemente??s stellar play, it seemed like the hockey gods were smiling on the Bears, as the very goalposts saved some of Harvard’s best chances to score...
...team’s soft-spoken captain—perhaps inspired by the ghosts of recent Crimson heroes Mike Beam ’99, Damian Long ’00 and Clemente??took the game in his own hands. Refusing to let the Crimson go quietly to another disappointing loss, Merchant drained three-pointer after magical three-pointer. The crowd, silent for most of the game, erupted and brimmed with a nervous and expectant energy too electric for words...
...Clemente??s graduation left a huge hole to fill at the four-spot, and even though Harvard’s preseason media guide speculated Winter “might” start, his physical maturation and experience left no doubt as to who would join the other regulars...
...introduced with his parents during a pregame ceremony Saturday night, it was Gellert—the man who thrived for so long in the shadow of his friend and former captain, Clemente??who was praised for setting the standard by which future captains of Harvard basketball would be judged...