Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, two of baseball's most notorious rule-breakers, have dominated the headlines this week, ...

Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente laced a double off New York Mets rookie pitcher Jon Matlack to join one of baseball’s most exclusive fraternities: the 3,000-hit club. “I still think ...

Clemente, then 18, hit .356 in the winter of 1952-53. With exactly 3,000 hits, Roberto Clemente is the measure of greatness in baseball. The next season Brooklyn Dodgers scout Al Campanis held a ...

On Sept. 30th, 1972, Roberto Clemente became one of 11 players to hit 3,000 hits. The cover went to then-Jets quarterback Joe Namath, and Clemente’s historic achievement only received one line ...

“Roberto Clemente’s first hit set a brilliant career in motion, and the memory of his 3,000th hit at this very location connects us directly to his story.” Roberto Clemente Jr. had an ...

The youngest of seven children, Roberto Clemente grew up ... He had to have that 3,000… He won 12 Golden Gloves and everything else, but that 3,000th hit, only ten players before him had ...