Roberto Clemente Quotes
I loved the game so much that even though our playing field was muddy and we had many trees on it, I used to play many hours every day.
Musick, Phil. Who Was Roberto? A Biography of Roberto Clemente. Doubleday, 1974, p. 41.
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates. After his early death, he was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, becoming both the first Caribbean and the first Latino-American player to be enshrined. Because he died at a young age and had such a stellar career, the Hall of Fame changed its rules of eligibility. As an alternative to a player having to be retired for five years before eligibility, a player who has been deceased for at least six months is eligible for entry.