Roberto Clemente Quotes
There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
Maraniss, David. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. Simon & Schuster, 2006, p. 182.
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.
