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The other five are Willie Stargell ( twice ), Roberto Clemente, Harry Walker, Dick Groat, and Frank Thomas.
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.
Smith was recognized for his community service efforts with the 1994 Branch Rickey Award and the 1995 Roberto Clemente Award.
The medal may be awarded to an individual more than once ( John Kenneth Galbraith and Colin Powell each have received two awards ; Ellsworth Bunker received both of his awards With Distinction ), and may also be awarded posthumously ( for example, Cesar Chavez, Paul " Bear " Bryant, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, John F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon Johnson ).
They also won the 1971 World Series behind Roberto Clemente and the 1979 World Series under the slogan " We Are Family ", led by " Pops " Willie Stargell.
Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, to Don Melchor Clemente and Luisa Walker.
Stopping for a closer look, Roberto Marin liked what he saw and promptly recruited Clemente to play softball with the Sello Rojo Team.
On May 6, Giants ' center fielder Willie Mays celebrated his 29th birthday with his first home run in the team's new stadium, Candlestick Park, a 350-foot line drive to right field which barely eluded the grasp of a leaping Roberto Clemente.
The Giants went on to win the game, with two other Giants contributing long home runs, but, as the Associated Press reported, " the biggest shot of them all belonged to Roberto Clemente.
Roberto and Vera celebrated the Great One's return to form on August 17, 1965 ( one day before Roberto's birthday ), with the birth of their first son, Roberto Clemente, Jr., the first of three children, including Luis Roberto and Enrique Roberto.
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.
Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Ironically ( if fittingly, given the media's frequent-and unwelcome-Americanization of Clemente's given name during his life ), his Hall of Fame plaque read " Roberto Walker Clemente "; in 2000, the plaque would finally be recast to express his name in the proper Hispanic format, " Roberto Clemente Walker ".
In a more bittersweet bit of irony, Roberto would enter the Hall, albeit posthumously, alongside both his boyhood hero, Monte Irvin, and one of his most respected adversaries, Warren Spahn ( called by Clemente the toughest left-handed pitcher he'd ever faced, outside of Sandy Koufax ).
MLB presents the Roberto Clemente Award every year to the player who best follows Clemente's example with humanitarian work.
The statue was moved to PNC Park when it opened, and stands at the corner near the Roberto Clemente Bridge.

Roberto and Walker
The book has chapters for each of the decades that comprised the 20th century, with special pages dedicated to Jack Johnson, Jimmy Wilde, Benny Leonard, Jack Dempsey, Mickey Walker, Henry Armstrong, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Durán, Sugar Ray Leonard, Barry McGuigan and Mike Tyson.
In 1983 Davies was sharing a flat with Italian neo-Nazi Roberto Fiore, and Michael Walker editor of Scorpion magazine.
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.
In a letter to historian Bill Haber in 1993, Pellot gave his real, full name as Victor Felipe Pellot Pove ; Pove being his mother's maiden name and Pellot his father's surname ( as is traditional in Hispanic culture ; see Roberto Clemente Walker ).
Through this trade, the Miami Heat acquired point guard Jason Williams, forward Antoine Walker, shooting guard Andre Emmett, and the draft rights to Roberto Duenas.
On March 17, Walker was traded along with minor leaguer Scott Adair to the San Diego Padres for Roberto Petagine and minor leaguer Luis Arroyo.
* August 3, 2005: Traded by Memphis to the Miami Heat as part of five-team deal ( Miami also acquired James Posey and Andre Emmett from Memphis, Antoine Walker from Boston Celtics and draft rights of Roberto Dueñas from New Orleans Hornets ; Memphis acquired Eddie Jones from Miami and Raúl López from Utah Jazz ; New Orleans acquired Rasual Butler from Miami and Kirk Snyder from Utah ; Boston acquired Qyntel Woods, draft rights of Albert Miralles, two future second-round draft picks from Miami and Curtis Borchardt from Utah ; Utah acquired Greg Ostertag from Memphis ).

Roberto and August
* August 19: Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras ( 1994 1998 )
* On August 4, 1989, Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays gave up a double to the New York Yankees ' Roberto Kelly, followed by an RBI single by Steve Sax.
While there, probably in August 1960, he met Holden Roberto who was already a rising star in émigré circles.
Álvaro Henríquez, Ángel Parra, and Roberto Lindl are working on the recording of the twelve new songs for the album, due out around August 2006.
Finally on August 19, 2003, Carlos Roberto Reina committed suicide from a gunshot at the age of 77.
Roberto Assagioli ( Venice, February 27, 1888-Capolona d ' Arezzo, August 23, 1974 ) was an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology.
A party convention held in Rosario in August 2006 officially rejected the possibility of alliances with Kirchner's faction of Justicialism and granted former Party President Roberto Iglesias the permission to negotiate with other political forces.
Savage ( right ) prepares to face off against Roberto Soto in a match held in Macon, Georgia | Macon, Georgia on August 23, 1977.
Roberto Críspulo Goizueta ( November 18, 1931 October 18, 1997 ) was Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980 until his death in October 1997.
The courses were frequently given by important names of the Brazilian artistic scene, such as the painters Lasar Segall and Roberto Sambonet, the architects Gian Carlo Palanti and Lina Bo Bardi, the sculptor August Zamoyski, and the motion-picture technician Alberto Cavalcanti.
On August 6, 2004, Sánchez, who had shortly before expressed to local newspapers that he hoped to become a world champion again, beat Roberto Gomez by an eight round decision, as part of a San Juan undercard highlighted by José Miguel Cotto's win over former world champion Al Kotey.
After participating in the national contest Señorita Panamá 2001 on August 30, 2001 ; earned the title Señorita Panamá Universe and obtaining the right to represent her country in the 51st edition of the Miss Universe 2002 pageant, was held at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 29, 2002.
Roberto Goyeneche ( Saavedra, Buenos Aires, January 29, 1926 Buenos Aires, August 27, 1994 ) was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires ' bohemian life, and became a living legend in the local music scene.
Cagliari's coach, Pierpaolo Bisoli, was fired on November 15, 2010 and replaced by former Italy and Napoli coach Roberto Donadoni which is sacked on August 12, 2011.
Roberto D ' Aubuisson Arrieta ( 23 August 1944-20 February 1992 ) was a major in the Salvadoran Army and a political leader who founded the Nationalist Republican Alliance ( ARENA ), which he led from 1980 to 1985.
Roberto Bussinello ( 4 October 1927 in Pistoia 24 August 1999 in Vicenza ) was a racing driver from Italy.
Note: The Acadie Bathurst Titan retired the number 1, carried by Roberto Luongo between 1998-1999, on August 19, 2012.
He was left off the Italy roster for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but was recalled by new coach Roberto Donadoni who had briefly coached Lucarelli at Livorno earlier in the year for a friendly against Croatia on 16 August 2006.
Roberto Carretero ( born 30 August 1975 in Madrid ) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
Holden Álvaro Roberto ( January 12, 1923 August 2, 2007 ) founded and led the National Liberation Front of Angola ( FNLA ) from 1962 to 1999.

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