Roberto Clemente was a successful Major League Baseball player from Puerto Rico who died in a plane crash on December 31, 1972 on his way to Nicaragua to deliver aid packages to victims of the devasting earthquake that leveled most of Managua on December 23.
Clemente played for the Pittsburgh Pirates for 18 seasons beginning in 1955. Clemente´s career statistics include 3000 hits, 1416 runs scored, 240 home runs, 1305 runs batted in, 83 stolen bases, and a .317 batting average.
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