Byline: Ted Cox TV/Radio Columnist tcox@@dailyherald.com Roberto Clemente gets the...By Cox
In 1964, Clemente expanded his responsibilities by marrying Carolina's Vera Zabala, with whom he would have three children, and becoming the manager of a Puerto Rican baseball team, the Senadores. Outside of baseball and community work, Clemente showed himself to be a man of many interests. ...
Following Clemente’s death, the Puerto Rican government donated 304 acres near the barrio where the baseball star grew up to fulfill his dream of a sports complex. The Roberto Clemente Sports City has served more than one million children, including future major leaguers Bernie Williams, Ivan R...
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...
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 ...
Epic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Several companies and organizations have previously tried to streamline health-care information exchange, but TEFCA was designed to help bring all of these players together on a national scale. The network’s ultimate goal is to final...
P2:Did you create new plaques for Clemente and Robinson, or were you able to update the existing ones? JI:We cast new ones. The original Clemente plaque is now in our Sandlot Clubhouse, which is our kids' area, to help explain, educationally, why we made the change. ...
Selling anything:If I decide to one day sell my Roberto Clemente rookie card for $800, I'm not going to include this in my passive income streams because I've only got a couple of them. Same thing goes for selling a watch or electronic device. ...