Despite being a professional athlete, Clemente joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve in the late 1950s ... Major League Baseball annually hands out the Roberto Clemente Award to the player ...

Those were Roberto Clemente’s mannerisms ... missed for twice being called for wartime duty as a Marine Corps aviator. Ted collected 2,654 hits, deprived of at least another 750-plus.

Outfielder Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburg Pirates gets a combat helment from Maj. Luther Reedy in place of his baseball cap after being sworn into the Marine Corps, September 13, 1958 for six ...

Roberto Clemente Walker was the youngest of seven ... Clemente enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve after the 1958 season and spent six months on active duty at Parris Island, South ...

Clemente, a U.S. Marine Corps reservist, admired Martin Luther ... that we can tell future generations: ‘Look, this is Roberto Clemente. These are the values and integrity we want representing ...

RAY: UNLIKE JUAN MARICHAL OF THE GIANTS, AND MINNIE MINOSO OF THE WHITE SOX, ROBERTO CLEMENTE WAS BORN AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, SEEDRV IN THE MARINE CORPS RESERVES, AND HAD CO NMEORTH READY TO ASSERT ...

It's been nearly 50 years since baseball legend Roberto Clemente was killed in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico. He and four others were killed on Dec. 31, 1972, as they made their way ...