Roberto Clemente

MLB Network will air a new “MLB Tonight: A Conversation” program Thursday night hosted Harold Reynolds and Pedro Martinez and including interviews with ...

Carew’s career overlapped with the last seasons of Clemente’s, and though they played in different leagues, had the chance to visit at All-Star Games. “It sits right there up at the top because it’s not just about what you did on the field,” said Jeter, who won the award in 2009. When they see us as, at times, superhuman and as superstars because we’re just on TV and we’ve reached the pinnacle of our dream. However, he does not put any of those awards and accomplishments ahead of the Clemente Award. September 15 is annually Roberto Clemente Day in MLB and this year’s award winner will be announced live on MLB Network’s “MLB Tonight” show that will air at 6 p.m. He was part of a humanitarian effort carrying food and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., will introduce a resolution to the Senate on Thursday aimed at further recognizing the legacy of Roberto Clemente.

Washington’s Olympia Park and another that includes painting a Clemente mural in the teen room of the Lawrenceville Boys & Girls Club. “On the anniversary of his biggest on-field accomplishment, this resolution honors him both as an athlete and as a humanitarian, recognizing his ongoing impact and legacy.” At PNC Park, employees will create boxes of cheer for pediatric cancer patients while partnering with the Jared Box Project. Lebanon and grew up in Mars. All 30 clubs have a nominee, and this year that’s closer David Bednar for the Pirates. Turns out Clemente will also be celebrated by the U.S.

Major League Baseball will celebrate Roberto Clemente Day on September 15. Here's how the league plans to honor the Pittsburgh Pirates legend.

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Major League Baseball players, coaches, and umpires will be honouring the life of Roberto Clemente today throughout the league in recognition of Roberto ...

The entire rosters of the Pittsburgh Pirates (the team for whom Clemente spent his entire Major League career) as well as their opponents tonight, the New York Mets, will wear the number 21. The team retired the number at their home opener in 1973, reserving its future use only for any of Clemente’s children, should they reach the big leagues. As part of the celebrations, all players will be wearing a white patch featuring Clemente’s number 21 in the black and gold of the Pittsburgh Pirates on their sleeves.

Every so often, Carlos Delgado will go on YouTube to watch highlights from a remarkable career and life that ended abruptly, tragically, 50 years ago.

Major League Baseball will celebrate Roberto Clemente Day on September 15. Here's how the league plans to honor the Pittsburgh Pirates legend.

It is a day when home teams recognize their nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, which honors a player who displays extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions on and off the field. Fans can [vote for the winner](https://www.mlb.com/community/roberto-clemente-award?affiliateId=rca-headline-mlb-2022) through the end of the regular season. Members of the New York Mets will also do so this season when they play the Pirates on Sept. [players and coaches of Puerto Rican descent](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/white-sox/mlb-allows-more-players-wear-no-21-honor-roberto-clemente) to wear a No. All other players and coaches could request to wear the number, as well. 15 to Oct.

The Roberto Clemente Foundation, in partnership with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, ...

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TORONTO -- The number 21 was seemingly everywhere you looked on the field at Rogers Centre on Thursday afternoon. Specifically, it was everywhere up and ...

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The career stats speak for themselves as Roberto Clemente became the first Latin-American player to be enshrined in Cooperstown.

In the states, Clemente would face oppression as an Afro-Latino player during the segregated 1950s. 50 years later and Clemente’s legacy lives on now through his family, who continue to organize charitable events and baseball clinics for the less fortunate. Roberto Clemente was born August 18, 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico where he would find an early love for the game of baseball. In his native Puerto Rico, Clemente would host free baseball clinics for underprivileged children, seeing baseball as a way of bettering children’s lives in Puerto Rico just as it had done for him. Clemente was already donating large amounts of money, but upon realizing it was not being distributed in the proper way, took it on himself to travel to Nicaragua with supplies. Clemente would speak out about Jim Crow laws and advocated for black and Latin baseball players facing mistreatment, even going as far as advocating the Pirates and Astros game be postponed following the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

In honor of Roberto Clemente Day celebrated across Major League Baseball on Thursday, the Astros' four Puerto Rican players and coaches as well as Jose ...

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CLEVELAND -- No matter who was asked about Roberto Clemente in the Guardians or White Sox clubhouse, the answer immediately highlighted who Clemente was as ...

A lot of it started with what he was trying to do in making sure other people who weren’t in the game were kind of being taken care of, and the ability to go about and follow your passions in a philanthropic way.” “He brought a lot of joy to a lot of people, and that act of selflessness and making sure he put other people ahead of him,” Hendriks said. Follow him on Twitter [@scottmerkin](http://twitter.com/@scottmerkin/) and [podcast](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/chicago-white-sox-podcast/id902521479?mt=2). He was a really good human being.” I’m proud to be a Latino, proud to represent how he represented us on and off the field. Clemente was known for his charitable efforts, and Major League Baseball now acknowledges players who make impacts in their communities every season with an award in his honor -- something that Hendriks doesn’t take lightly. 21 jersey on Thursday afternoon for Roberto Clemente Day. He had just finished his 18th season in the big leagues, having racked up 15 All-Star nominations, 12 Gold Gloves and an MVP Award. “Just learning about what he was doing, obviously about his untimely death and what he was doing at the moment of that.” a little bit through some of the previous things we’ve done,” Hendriks said. He was flying to Nicaragua to help deliver aid to victims of an earthquake when his plane crashed. MLB is once again recognizing a player central to baseball's history and legacy.

Thursday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays was a special one for the Tampa Bay Rays. On Roberto Clemente Day, the Rays fielded a lineup of all Latino ...

This year, the Rays felt it was important to expand the list of eligible players, according to manager Kevin Cash. First baseman Harold Ramírez said the players with a Latino background compare him to Jackie Robinson, another baseball legend. Clemente died in 1972, at the age of 38, while flying emergency supplies down to Nicaragua following a massive earthquake. On Roberto Clemente Day, the Rays fielded a lineup of all Latino hitters, which was a first in [MLB](/mlb) history. In his 18-year career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Clemente totaled 3,000 hits, made 15 All-Star games, claimed four NL batting titles, won two World Series titles and was named the 1966 NL MVP. 21 with no name on the back to honor the legendary Clemente.

The Tampa Bay Rays made MLB history Thursday afternoon in Toronto, fielding an all-Latin American starting nine for the first time ever on Roberto Clemente ...

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That was especially true Thursday on Roberto Clemente Day around Major League Baseball. It's the 21st annual celebration of Clemente, honoring all of the things ...

“He’s done so much for the game and for the community and for the world, I think it’s probably a good time to get that 21 retired and put it up there on a pedestal like it deserves.” “I’m happy we get to wear the jerseys and commemorate him, and I’m hoping before I get out of baseball that 21 is retired for good, because it needs to be,” Mr. “Roberto Clemente left an indelible mark on the city of Pittsburgh, Major League Baseball and the countless people he inspired over the course of his tragically short life and career,” Mr. During the offseason, Clemente spent his time in his beloved Puerto Rico doing charity work, and he lost his life while flying to help people in Nicaragua after a deadly earthquake. It’s given annually to the MLB player “who best represents the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.” Some around the league want the No. Bob Casey (D-PA), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) introduced a resolution to honor the career and humanitarian work of Clemente. With this resolution, on Roberto Clemente Day, the U.S. Toomey: “Roberto Clemente’s phenomenal baseball career was only upstaged by the noble and selfless life he lived off the field. “I think we’re going to see today with the fact that all the people and former players that are going to come out onto the field who won this award — we’re talking about the highest, exemplary players in the game. 21 is splayed on the right-field wall, colloquially called the Clemente Wall, standing at 21 feet high. Those 14 players stood on the field for a pregame ceremony, which included the singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem by legendary Puerto Rican musician Jose Feliciano.

Major League Baseball celebrated its 21st annual Roberto Clemente Day on Thursday, with festivities centered in New York, where the Mets hosted the Hall of ...

“It's a situation where I think it is gaining more momentum,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. “I think about his reckless abandon and how loud a runner he was. “I came in the league in ’73. “I missed him by a year. He helped lead the Pirates to a pair of championships in 18 brilliant seasons and was the 1971 World Series MVP. Puerto Rican musician José Feliciano performed the national anthem of Puerto Rico and “The Star-Spangled Banner," and Clemente's 4-year-old grandson threw out a first pitch in an RC III Pirates jersey.

NEW YORK -- Fifty years ago on New Year's Eve, Roberto Clemente tragically passed away in a plane crash at the age of 38, his final act attempting to ...

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MLB hosted “Roberto Clemente Day” on Thursday, Sept. 15 to honor the former Pirates star after he died in a plane crash 50 years ago.

the Mets. Clemente spent all of his 18 seasons with the Pirates from 1955–72. The two-time World Series champion sported No.