Guide to Conversation with Roberto Clemente Recording, October 8, 1972 AIS.2000.17
1972
Metadata Details
- Title
- Conversation with Roberto Clemente recording, October 8, 1972, Recording of Conversation with Roberto Clemente, October 8, 1972
- Creator
- Subject
- Clemente, Roberto , 1934-1972, Clemente, Roberto 1934-1972 --Interviews, Nover, Sam, Baseball players--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Interviews, Sports--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- This collection consists of a sound recording of the only television interview of famed Pittsburgh Pirate, Roberto Clemente. The interview was conducted by Sam Nover, then Sports Director of WIIC-TV Channel 11 in Pittsburgh (now WPXI), and covers topics such as Clemente's youth, his life as a ballplayer, his family, discrimination, and humanitarian efforts., Original interview recorded on 33 1/3 rpm stereo record album. Archives Service Center transferred the contents to audio cassette, which requires the use of a player for listening (available in the Archives Service Center)., Conversation with Roberto Clemente Recording, AIS.2000.17, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Gift of Debora Rougeux in 2000., Roberto Clemente was born August 18, 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Clemente began his baseball career in Puerto Rico playing for Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League. The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted him in 1952 to play for the Montreal Royals, a Triple-A team. In 1954, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates where he would become, over the course of 18 seasons, one of the most revered baseball players of all time. His accomplishments include 12 Golden Gloves, a lifetime batting average of .317, and over 3,000 hits. In addition to his prowess on the baseball field, Clemente was known for his humanitarian efforts such as visiting children in hospitals when the Pirates traveled. His efforts extended in 1972 to Managua, Nicaragua, which had been devastated by an earthquake. After successive attempts to send aid to the victims, Clemente discovered that his sponsored aid had been stolen by the Somoza government. To ensure that it was delivered, he decided to travel along with the supplies. However, the plane crashed on December 31, 1972, with Clemente aboard, while attempting to deliver the much needed supplies. There were no survivors. Clemente was married to Vera Cristina Zabala and had three sons, Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto and Roberto Enrique. The Pittsburgh Pirates retired his number, 21, and made the right field wall in PNC Park 21 feet tall in his honor., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200017
- Publisher
- Contributor
- University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Date
- 1972
- Type
- Sound, Interviews., Sound recordings.
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt:US-PPiU-ais200017, oclc: ocn701724660, oclc: 701724660, pitt: US-PPiU-ais200017
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais200017, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/