Roberto Clemente: First Player From Latin America Inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
(Photograph by Duane Rieder.) In the immediate aftermath of Roberto Clemente’s New Year’s Eve plane crash while on a mercy mission to Nicaragua, there were calls for him to be inducted by acclamation into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His qualifications were never questioned; he was only the 11th player to reach 3,000 […]