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This day in baseball: Clemente joins the Pirates

Posted: November 22, 2017 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

On November 22, 1954, the Pittsburgh Pirates purchased the contract of Roberto Clemente from the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers’ AAA farm club.  The right fielder would play eighteen seasons for the Pirates and became the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame after his death in 1972.

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Roberto Clemente (espn.com)

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