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- By: Carol Greene
- Presentation By: Will Simmons
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- Roberto Clemente was born on August 18, 1934. He was born in Carolina,
Puerto Rico. When he was young, he would squeeze a rubber ball to gain
energy. He would rather play baseball than eat. He and his friends would
make baseballs out of a golf ball covered with string. They kept playing
with them until they fell apart. Then they would make new ones.
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- He switched from the Dodgers to the Pirates. The fans loved him because
he could run fast, leap high, and catch any ball in the outfield. One
time he got so mad he broke 22 helmets. He had to pay a big fine. His
team went to the world series in 1960 and won it. Three years later, he
married Vera Zabala and had three
children.
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- Before he was in high school, he was shy. When people began to know that
he was a good athlete, he began to have friends. He was a fast person.
He was one of the people in track that got MVP in high school. He could
jump six feet in the air and he could throw a javelin 195 feet.
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- In 1972 he hit his 3,000th hit. On December 31, 1972, he took
off in a old airplane with supplies and other people. Then a storm came,
the plane lost control and it went straight down into the water. No one
survived. One year later he got voted into the baseball hall of fame.
People said that he belonged there. That’s how he got famous.
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