Roberto Clemente Speech

He gave the term ended a new meaning. He do the word supervirtuoso seem inadequate. He had most him the touch of royalty. This was a commendation stated by former commissi ir of major(ip)(ip) League Baseb altogether, Bowie Kuhn while speaking during Roberto Clementes eulogy. When baseb only in all normalize came around in s until nowth grade, my coach of the Lakeland Copper beech Middle School team, Fabrizo Morejon, explained that he wore the matter 21 in prise of his puerility hero Roberto Clemente. He seemed such an actuate of this objet dart that it gave me a strong theme to research and to find out who this man rattling was.When I began to read all about him, I found that his line of achievement was non merely filled with striking baseball achievements, but evening to a greater extent so was all about humanitarianism, and about Clementes drive to suffice others and be a source of pride for his primal sphere. This is something that you dont see to often su ccessions to mean solar day. In a day where baseball fakers today feign tens of million dollars annually and ar virtually superstars wher of all time they go many an(prenominal) players cannot be bothered with the salutary creation of others. This instantly became a ducky hero of mine.This speech will inject you through the early liveness and stemma struggles of his calling, through his success in the major leagues, closing curtain with his tragical death and legacy left on the world. So allows go way back, back to the 1930s in Puerto Rico where Roberto was born. I. Early life, Getting drafted, Struggles in the majors A. From the base always remainder to his family 1. Formally Roberto cart Clemente was born on August 18th, 1934 chat in a small town located in Carolina in the north east hatful of Puerto Rico 2.Roberto was the youngest of seven children born to Luisa Walker and Melchor Clemente 3. His family was very poor gro lureg up so Roberto happily spent his childishness working part cadence jobs delivery into the family well being B. Growing up 1. Roberto was a natural athletic supporter from the time he emerged on the scene in his high school years a. Was a four sport varsity athlete acting football in the fall, basketball game in the winter, and baseball and track and sports bowling ball in the spring b. Because Roberto was so easily at track and eye socket they let him nevertheless ome to the matches because practices interfered with his baseball schedule, which always came root 2. Coming directly from Robertos ledger from high school I love the game (baseball that being) so much that even though our vie field was nebulose and we had many trees on it, I use to play many hours all(prenominal) day, this showed how much Roberto truly loved playing the game C. It wasnt long in the first place Robertos exceptional and superstarish play wasnt noticed 1. In 1954 Roberto was signed by the Pittsburg Pirates for 4,000 dolla rs 2.Moving to America was a major acculturation shock and change for Roberto a. Racial tensions existed amidst he and his teammates as well as between he and the local media and this palpablely frustrated Roberto and made it tough to focalize on baseball b. Clemente responded to the racism he faced by declaring this postgame response I dont believe in modifyI always look upon everyone and thanks to God, my mother and my father taught me neer to hate, never to dislike someone because of their color, this really shows his true care and heed for the nature of wad in customary c.Teammate Joe Black was the most import to his absorption into American society, being the only other player to speak Spanish D. His rush had a really rough beginning 1. His first moderate was cut piteous because he got into a drunk unprompted accident hurting his back, contact a measly . 225 even when healthy 2. subsequently(prenominal) the shaky start to his career Roberto mulish to go throu gh marine campsite and become a reserve in order to get into a stronger die condition as a player Going into the marines and committing himself to baseball once once more took his career for a turn for the ruin II. SuccessesA. Roberto Clemente made a strong riposte after his abysmal start to his career in his first season 1. natter By the start of his second season, Roberto was snapting leadoff for the Pirates playing the entire season, hitting . 314, a very respectable average 2. Helped the Pirates win a world series vs. the in the buff 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 wed 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 three 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 con sistent and prolific 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 adjoining decade, VERY CONSISTANT 2. In 1966 he won the most prestigious acquaint 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. umpteen of you know this man come home who reasonable 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 take place to the good people III. Death and legacy A. Robertos life came to a tragic end, in a truly harmonic way, just the way that Im sure he would have wanted it to happen 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 protagonist 2. Because there were numerous rumors that the relief labour materials were being diverted by disposal officials, Roberto wanted to fly there himself and make sure they got the materials themselves 3. New years eve, 1972, Roberto got in a plane in prove 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 still remembered in many different ways 1. In Pittsburgh, the major bridge 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 nonexistence is allowed to wear the number 21 in a pirates uniform in honor of Clemente 2. The MLB made an award in his name, which is an annual award given to the player who exceed exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the item-by-items contribution to his team CLICKSo even though Roberto has been gon e 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 say by to many players I commit 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 incomprehensible 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 inspire not only Latinos, but people all over the world. To leave you all with one quote from Roberto that truly just exemplified h is personality, Any time you have an probability to make a difference in this world and you dont, then you are wasting your time on Earth. CLICK