Best roberto clemente biography

Baseball fans know of Roberto Clemente's professional accomplishments – 3, career hits, batting average and two World Series championships with the Pittsburgh Pirates – along with the tales of his legendary throwing arm and his wild dashes around the basepaths.

Yet for all his successes in a baseball uniform, he remains as well-known for his actions in the other facets of his too-brief life, a testament to his character.

Early in his career, he became an advocate for Latino culture

As detailed in Roberto Clemente: The Great One, he was born in in Carolina, outside of Puerto Rico's capital city of San Juan.

Clemente grew up with a roof over his head and enough to eat, though he certainly understood the struggles of the working class: His father, Melchor, spent all day at his job as a sugarcane foreman and his mom, Luisa, toiled as a laundress when not chasing down her seven children.

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