Byline: Ted Cox TV/Radio Columnist tcox@@dailyherald.com Roberto Clemente gets the...By Cox
... Roberto was not afraid to speak. But he had to reach a level of stardom where people would say, 'Hey, we gotta listen to this guy.'" Clemente embraced the opportunities to make a difference in the lives of others. He set aside fan mail from kids in hospitals, noting to visit ...
“Clemente had a deep sense of empathy for other people, and this was particularly true in terms of class and socioeconomics,” says University of Pittsburgh history professorRob Ruck, author ofRaceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game. “He always identified with peopl...
At the Roberto Clemente State Park gymnasium near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, for example, dozens of families share a dusty basketball court that has become a bedroom. The city-run shelter, opened in late 1983, has 210 cots and cribs lined in rows. It is filled with harried women and c...
In his final at-bat of the 1972 season, Roberto Clemente doubled for his 3,000th career hit. Just three months later on New Year's Eve, he died in a plane crash. Clemente, as good a humanitarian as he was a ballplayer, was on his way to Nicaragua to deliver relief items after ...
Vintage baseball cards featuring future Hall-of-Fame players, such asLou Gehrig,Babe Ruth,Cy Young,Ty Cobb,Mickey Mantle,Hank Aaron,Roberto Clemente,Stan Musial,Willie Mays,Nolan Ryan, andTed Williamswill almost always have some sort of value, even when found in below average conditions. The ...
Jim Thorpe (he did baseball, but he played a lot of other sports, too) Not actively pursuing collecting these players, but I’ll always hang onto their cards if I get them by happenstance: Yogi Berra Roberto Clemente Curt Flood Josh Gibson ...
Google has 40 photos of men and women of different shapes, sizes and backgrounds to try to give people a virtual try-on experience. Google The last new function lets you see how a product might look on you. You can search, for example, “brown jacket at J-Crew” and Google will ...
Not since Roberto Clemente has a sports luminary passed so tragically. Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY Sports You mourn Bryant, a father of four. The transition from elite athlete to whatever comes next can be difficult. Bryant made it look easy. He founded Granity Studios, a multimedia company. He...
JI:The two we've had to revise were for Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. For Clemente, when he was elected, they inadvertently -- I assume -- reversed the order of his mother's maiden name and his given name. It said,"Roberto Walker Clemente,"which is just wrong. His name was ...