During the winter of 1958 – 59, Clemente did not play winter baseball in Puerto Rico ; instead, he joined the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

In late-2007, Tom joined forces with Catch Surf of San Clemente, California, to bring his new technology to the masses.

After the election the CCD joined Berlusconi I Cabinet with Clemente Mastella becoming Minister of Labour and Francesco D ' Onofrio Minister of Education.

Roberto Clemente Walker ( August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972 ) was a Puerto Rican baseball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.

Off the field, Clemente was involved in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, often delivering baseball equipment and food to those in need.

Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, to Don Melchor Clemente and Luisa Walker.

With Clemente fast becoming a fan favorite, there would seem little not to like about the early progress of his highly touted rookie season, but the transition from Puerto Rico to Pittsburgh was, in fact, anything but smooth.

The previous December, Clemente had been involved in a car accident in Puerto Rico ; over the course of the season, this caused him to miss several games with an injury in his lower back.

During the off season, Clemente played with the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican baseball winter league, where he was already considered a star.

Following the season, he returned to Puerto Rico along with Orlando Cepeda, a native of Ponce who had just led the National League in home runs and RBIs, thus inadvertently collaborating with first-time batting champion Clemente to give their mutual homeland a collective National League triple crown.

The night of July 4, 1970, was declared " Roberto Clemente Night "; on this day, several Puerto Rican fans traveled to Three Rivers Stadium and cheered Clemente while wearing traditional Puerto Rican indumentary.

A ceremony to honor Clemente took place, during which he received a scroll with 300, 000 signatures compiled in Puerto Rico, and several thousands of dollars were donated to charity work following Clemente's request.

The coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was naned the Roberto Clemente Coliseum ; two baseball parks are in Carolina, the professional one, Roberto Clemente Stadium, and the Double-A.

Designed by Juan Lopez-Bonilla, the spare clean design shows Clemente wearing his Pirates cap, with the Puerto Rican flag in the background.

** Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.

* December 31 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player ( b. 1934 )

** Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player ( d. 1972 )

* On June 26, 2009 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Argúello placed flowers at a monument for Roberto Clemente to honor the late baseball great.

| align = left | Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

| align = left | Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

| align = left | Roberto Clemente Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

Roberto Clemente Walker, later a double-World Series winner for the Pittsburgh Pirates, played baseball for Juncos before signing with the Santurce Crabbers in Puerto Rico's Professional League.

President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.

Clemente demonstrated interest in baseball early in his life and often played against neighboring barrios.

The city is home to the annual AABC Roberto Clemente World Series for seven-and eight-year-old baseball players.

In the wake of his record setting 118 stolen bases during the 1974 season, Brock was named the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award in March 1975, for best exemplefying the game of baseball both on and off the field.

The city is known as " Tierra de Gigantes " ( Land of Giants ) not only for well-known Carolina resident Don Felipe Birriel González ( who was 7 ' 11 "), but also in honor of other eminent people from Carolina such as poet Julia de Burgos and baseball player Roberto Clemente.

The Gigantes de Carolina professional baseball team use the Roberto Clemente Stadium as their home field.

In the late 1970s, Thorogood played on a baseball team in Delaware in the semi-professional Roberto Clemente League, which was created in 1976.

The Coliseum is named after baseball hall of famer Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash off Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina in 1972, while flying with relief articles to be given to victims of the Nicaragua earthquake.

During his playing days, he was arguably the most famous baseball player ( not counting the late Roberto Clemente ) in Puerto Rico.

The World Series held that year brought the first player-specific baseball bobbleheads, for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays, still all with the same face.

The Roberto Clemente Award " recognizes the player who best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team.

Lithuania's baseball team played a team from California's San Clemente Little League on 6 April 2010.

Cabrera has recently been nominated by his team for the Roberto Clemente award, honoring the MLB player who best represents baseball on and off the field.

The base of Clemente's statue is shaped like a baseball diamond, with dirt from three of the fields Clemente played at — Santurce Field in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Forbes Field, and Three Rivers Stadium — at each base.

Victor Pellot has been considered by many Puerto Ricans to be one of the island greatest baseball players, a legend only beaten by Roberto Clemente.

* Partial list of Clemente Alvarez's baseball cards.

In 1972, Clemente got his 3, 000th major league hit.

By the end of the following winter ball season, Brooklyn was one of several major league clubs seeking to sign Clemente.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

Clemente hit his first home run during his third league game.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

He was known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing African American player Jackie Robinson, for drafting the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente, for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system, for encouraging the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and for introducing the batting helmet.

During the 1970s, Estelí participated in the " Roberto Clemente " baseball tournament and had one of best baseball teams in the country with the help of one-time big league players like Porfi Altamirano and Albert Williams.

Jones ended the season with a. 340 batting average, which was third in the league behind Pete Rose and Roberto Clemente, and was second on the team in home runs, RBIs and runs scored, behind Tommie Agee in all three categories.

On September 6, 2006, the Indians announced that Michaels was their nominee for the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the major league player who best exemplifies a commitment to community service.

Zisk was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Seton Hall University in the third round of the 1967 Major League Baseball Draft, and made his major league debut on September 8, 1971 replacing Roberto Clemente in right field in the eighth inning of Pittsburgh's 10-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs, and got a single in his first major league at-bat.