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Roberto Clemente Photo Gallery
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- Roberto with manager Danny Murtaugh
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- Roberto Clemente loved children, as seen in this photo
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- The great Roberto Clemente
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- Roberto after his 3000th hit
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- Clemente receives an award
We Celebrate the Memory of the Great Roberto Clemente
To honor the memory of one of the all-time greats – who was also a true humanitarian – here’s a few edits from a recent post about his Hall-of-Fame career:
Whenever baseball fans who saw him play are asked who had the best arm ever, they usually respond “Roberto Clemente” without hesitation. Over his career, Roberto Clemente hit .317, with exactly 3000 hits, 1416 runs, 440 doubles, 166 triples, 240 home runs, and 1305 RBIs. Clemente was a 15-time All-Star, a National League Most Valuable Player (1966), a four-time National League batting champion (1961, ’64, ’65, and ’67), a two-time World Series champion (1960 and 1971), and a twelve-time Gold Glove winner. He led the National League in hits twice, triples once, put-outs as a right fielder three times, and outfield fielding average once.
In the featured photo above, we see Clemente going “air-borne” to snare another hard-line ball in right. Those of us who saw him play know that catches like this were commonplace!
In a record that may never be broken, Clemente is first all-time by a wide margin in career assists for a right fielder with 266. In second place is Hank Aaron with 186. Only 16 men in baseball history have as many as 100.
-Gary Livacari
Photo Credits: All from public domain
Information: Statistics from Roberto Clemente Baseball Reference page
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