“Roberto Clemente was one of the most famous baseball players of all time,” Fa said, and “if the government can do this to his family, it can do it to anybody.” But a trial judge threw the case out, ...

Roberto Clemente began his career with the Puerto Rican professional baseball league. At just 17 years old, the Brooklyn Dodgers signed him the following year and he would eventually break records ...

Shelton led the push for the Pirates to be allowed to wear Clemente’s retired number on the day designated to honor the memory of the late Hall of Fame right fielder who died New Year’s Eve ...

Clemente died in a plane crash off the coast of San Juan in his native Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve in 1972 ... “Roberto Clemente is more than a Hall of Fame player to us,” Pirates senior ...

Clemente died in a plane crash off the coast of San Juan in his native Puerto Rico on New Year's Eve in 1972 while attempting to deliver supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua. He was inducted ...