On-Field
Clemente's career hits
What is 3,000?
This is the name of Clemente's hometown
What is Carolina?
This was Clemente's team as a teenager in the Puerto Rico Baseball League
Who are the Crabbers (Cangrejeros)?
The country Clemente was flying to when his plane crashed
What is Nicaragua?
This caused Clemente to miss most of his rookie year
What is a car accident (back injury)?
Clemente's playing number with the Pirates for nearly all of his career
What is 21?
Clemente grew up working in these crop fields
What are sugar cane fields?
The first MLB team to sign Clemente to any deal
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Clemente is the only member of this to ever be inducted less than five years after the end of his playing career
What is the Baseball Hall of Fame?
The year the Roberto Clemente Award was installed to honor MLB's most charitable player
What is 1971?
Clemente's number of Gold Gloves. They're cheaper this way.
What is 12?
After his death, this type of art work was made in honor of Clemente by Jose Buscaglia and still lies in his hometown. The work depicts Clemente carrying the lamb from the Puerto Rican coat of arms
What is a cenotaph?
The value of Clemente's signing bonus
What is $10,000?
The name of the sports complex for children in Puerto Rico- established by Clemente's wife, Vera
What is the Roberto Clemente Sports City?
Clemente was this pick in the 1954 annual rookie draft.
What is the first pick?
Clemente's seasons played
What is 18?
Before Clemente's rise, these two boxers put his hometown on the map
Who are Esteban De Jesus and Alfredo Escalera?
The man in the Pirates organization who drafted Clemente. (You've heard this name before)
Who is Branch Rickey?
Clemente was awarded this from the United States Government in 1973. A Midas touch.
What is a Congressional Gold Medal of Honor?
Clemente held these for free for underprivileged youth in his native Puerto Rico
What are baseball clinics?
Clemente had to balance his baseball career with his responsibility to this branch of the military
What is the United States Marine Corps?
Clemente took a stand for Hispanic and Latino pride and equality when writers tried to force this nickname on him
What is "Bob"?
Clemente's number before Earl Smith departed the Pirates in 1955. (I'm feeling lucky)
What is number 13?
Clemente's personal museum in Pittsburgh is housed in this type of building
What is a firehouse?
This part of PNC Park is 21 feet high to honor Clemente
What is the right field wall?