로베르토 클레멘테

소개

로베르토 클레멘테 워커(Roberto Clemente Walker, 1934년 8월 18일~1972년 12월 31일)는 메이저 리그 피츠버그 파이러츠에서 활약했던 푸에르토리코 출신의 우익수로 메이저 리그 최초의 라티노 선수이다. 1955년 피츠버그 파이리츠 소속으로 데뷔한 이후 1972년까지 18년 동안 팀의 중심타자로서 맹활약 하였다. 통산 12번(1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972) 올스타 팀에 선정되었으며, 골든글러브에도 12차례 선정되었고, 1966년에는 내셔널리그 MVP를 수상하였다. 또한, 1960년과 1971년에는 팀의 월드시리즈 우승에 일조하기도 했다.

Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder. On December 31, 1972, Clemente was killed when his Douglas DC-7 airplane, which he had chartered for a flight to take and deliver emergency relief goods for the survivors of a massive earthquake in Nicaragua, crashed and plunged into the water off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. He was 38 years old. After his death, the National Baseball Hall of Fame changed its rules so that a player who had been dead for at least six months would be eligible for entry. In 1973, Clemente was posthumously inducted, becoming the first Latino and Caribbean player and second of Hispanic descent to be honored in the Hall of Fame. He is widely referred to as "The Great One."