Roberto Clemente Research Paper

[Insert Title Here; Something Cool about Roberto Clemente] [Introduction starts here, but I haven’t quite figured one out yet, so I’ll start with the body for now.] Roberto Walker Clemente was born on August 13, 1934, in Barrio San Anton in Carolina, Puerto Rico to Melchor and Luisa Clemente. Roberto Clemente was the youngest of seven children in the family. He had four brothers: Osvaldo, Justino, Andres, and half-brother Luis Oquendo. He also had two sisters: Anairis Clemente and half-sister Rosa Oquendo. Everybody in the Clemente family lived under one roof and, somehow, all got along with each other. The largest influence on Roberto Clemente was his older brother Osvaldo. Osvaldo brought baseball into the Clemente family, but it was not him who thrived in the sport (Powell).
He would spend time outside of his room gathering materials to make newly-formed spherical objects to throw against one specific spot along his wall. He would eventually get so good at it that one part of his bedroom wall would have a dent in it that could never be removed unless the whole wall was re-plastered. Even in the middle of the night, Clemente would wake up his older siblings when he was trying to strengthen his arm by throwing that one rubber ball against his wall. Eventually, Clemente’s mother, Luisa, had enough of his disturbances and asked Clemente to join a sandlot squad in town. Clemente eventually caved and joined other children in his neighborhood and played in the local sandlot. Osvaldo, again, was to credit for the finding of the sandlot. The children played together anytime they could. Roberto Clemente was designated as a shortstop and a pitcher. As younger kids, the “best positions” were shortstop and pitcher. For some reason, this was the preference of Clemente, as he wanted to showcase his skills to the other children of his neighborhood (Hano