30th, 1972, Roberto Clemente became one of 11 players to hit ... picture of what could have been happening to him at that time. Born in 1934 in Puerto Rico, Clemente grew up in a middle-class ...

Clemente was born on Aug. 18, 1934 ... With exactly 3,000 hits, Roberto Clemente is the measure of greatness in baseball. The next season Brooklyn Dodgers scout Al Campanis held a clinic and ...

Roberto Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico. As a boy he played baseball with a tin can and a tree branch. "Roberto lives to swing/and slide. /To catch. /To throw. /To run." At the age of ...

Roberto Clemente's life was cut short when he died ... touch of royalty," then-commissioner Bowie Kuhn said. Clemente was born Aug. 18, 1934, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven ...