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Great Photo of Roberto Clemente With His Children!
A few years ago, I started a series I called “Baseball Fathers and Sons.” It’s been a while since I added to it, so I thought this would be a good time for another entry.
So today, I’ll feature a heartwarming photo of Roberto Clemente with his three boys: Roberto, Jr. (born in 1965), Luis Roberto (born in1966), and Roberto Enrique (born in 1969). On a sad note, I just learned that Roberto’s wife, Vera Zabala Clemente, passed away two years ago this week, November 16, 2019, at age 78.
Roberto Clemente with wife Vera and sons and his parents.
Baseball Bonds Fathers with Their Children
What American institution has ever been better at bonding together grandfathers, fathers, and sons/daughters, generation after generation, than the great game of baseball? And so what better way to celebrate this than with a photo tribute to some of baseball’s more notable fathers and children.
I put together a nice collection of baseball fathers and their children. Check out the photo gallery to see it. It includes father-children combinations from different eras in baseball. It’s not meant to be all-inclusive, it’s just some of the combinations I was able to come up with. I hope you enjoy it.
George Herman Ruth, Jr.
Here’s another one that comes immediately to mind: It’s the classic photo of a young George Herman Ruth, Jr. helping out his old man at George Sr.’s Baltimore gin mill in 1915. I’ve posted this one before, but I never tire of looking at it.
Babe Ruth helping out at his father’s saloon, 1915
Boy, that George Jr. was the “spittin’ image” of the old man…a real chip off the old block! I wonder if Junior ever amounted to anything! Let’s see… Junior was born in 1895, making him about 20 at the time of the photo. Was he old enough to be working in a saloon?? Did they even have laws like that back then? Haha!
By the way, here’s a nice pic of the Clemente boys later in life with their mother, Vera, in front of the Roberto Clemente statue:
If you’d like to share some reminiscences about your dad or your grandfather and baseball, please do so in the comments section below.
Gary Livacari
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Information: Excerpts Roberto Clement Wikipedia page