MLB.com journalist Nathalie Alonso speaks with Poynter about new picture book, “Call Me Roberto! Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat ...

Major League Baseball gives the Roberto Clemente Award to current players who exemplify Clemente’s commitment to community and helping others. The Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities ...

Pittsburgh Pirates icon Roberto Clemente was a hero and lives on ... Clemente is one of the most accomplished players in baseball history and the gatekeeper to the 3,000-hit club.

In November 1960, Roberto Clemente was more than disappointed after finishing only eighth among National League players in the Baseball Writers Association’s Most Valuable Player balloting.

Clemente began his professional baseball career in Puerto ... pointing instead to the existence of the annual Roberto Clemente Award, which recognizes a player’s contributions to his sport ...

General Robinson St. Fifty years ago today, Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto ... 2006 biography, “Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero.” Black players often remained ...

To honor him, the league celebrates Roberto Clemente Day as a way to give some recognition to “the player who best represents ...

He was the 11th player to achieve 3,000 hits ... With exactly 3,000 hits, Roberto Clemente is the measure of greatness in baseball. The next season Brooklyn Dodgers scout Al Campanis held a ...

The mural at the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley commemorates the life of Roberto Clemente. It was designed ... He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame a few months later.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Baseball legend Roberto Clemente’s legacy extends far beyond his play on the field. The civil rights advocate and humanitarian will now be commemorated on a coin after ...

Fifty-two years ago today, the world lost a Puerto Rican baseball legend. More than a half-century later, one community is on ...