Roberto Clemente Speech

He gave the term complete a new meaning. He do the word superstar seem inadequate. He had about him the relate of royalty. This was a quote stated by former commissioner of Major fusion Baseb altogether, Bowie Kuhn while spea office during Roberto Clementes eulogy. When baseb any date came around in sevensometh grade, my coach of the Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School team, Fabrizo Morejon, explained that he wore the number 21 in honor of his childhood numbfish Roberto Clemente. He seemed such an advocate of this creation that it gave me a strong motive to inquiry and to find out who this man re eachy was.When I began to read all(prenominal) in all about him, I found that his flight was non and fill with spectacular baseball achievements, but even more so was all about humanitarianism, and about Clementes drive to help opposites and be a source of pride for his native country. This is something that you dont see to lots today. In a day whither baseball players today make tens of trillion dollars annually and are virtually superstars wherever they go many players can non be bothered with the easily being of others. This instantly became a favorite hero of mine.This speech will take you th rambunctious the early life and ancestor struggles of his career, through his success in the major leagues, ending with his tragic closing and legacy left on the orbit. So lets go modality post, back to the 1930s in Puerto Rico where Roberto was born. I. Early life, Getting drafted, Struggles in the major league A. From the beginning always close to his family 1. Formally Roberto Walker Clemente was born on August 18th, 1934 click in a small town primed(p) in Carolina in the north east portion of Puerto Rico 2.Roberto was the youngest of seven children born to Luisa Walker and Melchor Clemente 3. His family was very poor growing up so Roberto happily spent his childhood working part magazine jobs slant into the family well being B. Growing up 1. Rob erto was a natural suspensor from the measure he emerged on the scene in his high check years a. Was a four sport varsity athlete performing football in the fall, basketball in the winter, and baseball and track and celestial sphere in the spring b. Because Roberto was so good at track and line of merchandise they let him just ome to the matches because practices interfered with his baseball schedule, which always came first 2. Coming straight off from Robertos journal from high school I loved the bouncing (baseball that being) so much that even though our playing area was sloughy and we had many trees on it, I used to play many hours all day, this showed how much Roberto truly loved playing the game C. It wasnt long before Robertos exceptional and superstarish play wasnt spy 1. In 1954 Roberto was signed by the Pittsburg Pirates for 4,000 dollars 2.Moving to America was a major subtlety shock and change for Roberto a. Racial tensions existed between he and his teammates as well as between he and the local media and this really frustrated Roberto and made it tough to concentrate on baseball b. Clemente responded to the racism he face by declaring this postgame response I dont believe in colorI always respect everyone and thanks to God, my mother and my sustain taught me never to hate, never to dislike someone because of their color, this really shows his neat care and respect for the nature of people in general c.Teammate Joe discolor was the most import to his assimilation into American society, being the only other player to speak Spanish D. His career had a really rough beginning 1. His first indurate was cut short because he got into a drunk driving accident hurting his back, hitting a misfortunate . 225 even when healthy 2. After the shaky start to his career Roberto determined to go through marine camp and become a accommodate in order to get into a stronger better condition as a player Going into the marines and committing himself to baseball once again took his career for a turn for the better II. SuccessesA. Roberto Clemente made a strong reproduction after his abysmal start to his career in his first season 1. permeate By the start of his second season, Roberto was hitting leadoff for the Pirates playing the inbuilt season, hitting . 314, a very respectable average 2. Helped the Pirates win a world series vs. the New York Yankees (I know it hurts to say) 3. He went to his first all star game that same season B. During the middle of his career, Roberto got married 1. On November 14th, 1964 Roberto Clemente got married to Vera Zabala back in his hometown of Carolina, of course in Puerto Rico 2.He had deuce-ace children with Vera Zabala named Roberto Jr. , Luis Roberto, and Enrique Roberto C. From the time that Roberto turned his around his career he was a very consistent and productive player 1. After 1961, which was his breakout season talked about earlier, Clemente went on to win a Gold Glove and was an all star team starter, every season for the next decade, VERY CONSISTANT 2. In 1966 he won the most prestigious deliver in the MLB, which is the most Valuable Player award 3.Ended his career with exactly 3000 career hits, being only the tenth player ever to do that at the time a. Many of you know this man CLICK who just got 3000 hits CLICK and was king of New York for a few days b. However, Clemente got to this feat playing in fewer games than Derek Jeter However, sometimes in life it seems that bad things just encounter to the good people III. Death and Legacy A. Robertos life came to a tragic end, in a truly charitable way, just the way that Im reliable he would have wanted it to hap 1.When the city of Managua in Nicaragua was hit with a massive earthquake, Roberto, not even a native of that country was the first to step up and help 2. Because there were numerous rumors that the relief effort materials were being turn by goernment officials, Roberto wanted to fly there himsel f and make sure they got the materials themselves 3. New years eve, 1972, Roberto got in a plane in tone-beginning to personally deliver the relief materials himself, CLICK however the plane crashed just after take off killing Roberto and everyone else on boardB. Today Roberto is salve remembered in many different ways 1. In Pittsburgh, the major duo leading near the stadium is named after him CLICK, along with the right field wall in the new stadium is 21 feet high CLICK and nobody is allowed to wear the number 21 in a pirates furnish in honor of Clemente 2. The MLB made an award in his name, which is an annual award given to the player who best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the soulfulnesss contribution to his team CLICKSo even though Roberto has been gone for over 35 years the Major Leagues remember him every year for his qualities not just on the field but off as well, not something that can be said by to many players I anticipa te that through this presentation, going from the beginnings of Robertos life through the ups and the downs of his career and finally ending with his heroic death and legacy, everyone got a real feel for who this man really is. I did not want to stand up here and you guys think that I was just talking about some baseball player who had really good stats and hit a lot of homeruns.Because thats not the case with this man, at all. The life of Roberto Clemente is one consisting of outrageous baseball statistics CLICK, a profound love of the game, and a desire to help others. With all of his charity work and accomplishments Roberto Clementes legend lives on and he continues to advocate not only Latinos, but people all over the world. To escape you all with one quote from Roberto that truly just exemplified his personality, Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you dont, then you are wasting your time on Earth. CLICK