Roberto Clemente intimidated major leage pitchers for eighteen seasons, compiling three thousand hits. Bue what Clemente did off the baseball field made him equally great. One of the first sports stars to realize that the power of sports could be used to transform thousands of lives he would give his own life when the plane he was on crashed in the Atlantic Ocean as he was trying to deliver supplies to earthquake-sticken Nicaragua in 1972.
A biography of Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican-born Major League Baseball right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who died in a plane crash in 1972 while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
la pasi?n y el carisma del ?ltimo h?roe del b?isbol
Maraniss, David
2006
A biography of major league baseball player Roberto Clemente, chronicling his childhood in Puerto Rico, his eighteen distinguished seasons, his charity work, and his tragic death.
A biography of the Puerto Rican baseball player, Roberto Clemente, who was killed in a plane crash while delivering aid to survivors of a Nicaraguan earthquake.
A biography of the Puerto Rican baseball player, Roberto Clemente, who was killed in a plane crash while delivering aid to survivors of a Nicaraguan earthquake.
