Clemente PBS special: glove and heart of gold From: sfgate.com
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As his jubilant teammates showered each other with Champagne to celebrate winning the 1971 World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Roberto Clemente – the Series’ most valuable player – stepped before the national television microphones. Many Americans had learned in this Series what baseball fans had known for a decade: Clemente was one of the sport’s finest, both on and off the field.
Before answering, Clemente did something unusual for an A-list professional athlete in the turbulent 1970s. He told his interviewer that first he would say something in Spanish, and gave a shout-out to family, friends and fellow Latinos, from his native Puerto Rico to the Bronx.”*
*From: www.sfgate.com
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