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...another long, sleepless winter for Roberto Clemente. A national hero in Puerto Rico, the Pittsburgh Pirates' 38-year-old rightfielder once explained that his home near San Juan was "like a museum-people flocking down the street, ringing our bell day and night, walking through our rooms...
...combed the crash area, but by dawn only bits of debris had been recovered. Clemente, three crew members and another passenger had perished. Governor-elect Rafael Hernandez Colon immediately canceled the formal ball that was to have followed his inauguration last week, and three days of mourning were declared. "Roberto died serving his fellow man," Colon said. "Our youth loses an idol. Our people lose one of their glories...
...World Series when, with a blistering .414 average at bat and assorted marvels afield, he all but singlehanded defeated the favored Baltimore Orioles. Such seasoned managers as Dick Williams of the Oakland A's and Harry Walker of the Houston Astros say the same thing: Roberto Walker Clemente was "the greatest ballplayer I ever...
...headaches, cramps, insomnia and stomach. Though some of his ailments, such as slipped discs, bone chips, blood clots, pulled muscles and malaria, were undoubtedly for real, Pirate fans came to expect and even revel in the complaints of "Mr. Aches and Pains." It was almost axiomatic that the worse Roberto said he felt, the better he played. "If Clemente can walk," the New York Mets' Tommy Agee said before the 1972 season, "he can hit." Hit he did, registering a .300-plus average for the 13th time in his career. His last hit in his last regular season game...
...came his first time at bat for the Pirates in 1955. It should have come a season earlier, but Clemente was the unwitting victim of a hide-and-seek game played by the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Son of a sugar-plantation foreman in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan, Roberto was spotted by Dodger scouts when he was 19 and quickly signed for a $10,000 bonus to keep him out of the clutches of their archrivals, the New York Giants. Well aware of his potential, the Dodgers sent Clemente to their Montreal farm team where, by using him sparingly...