Clemente : the passion and grace of baseball's last hero / David Maraniss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maraniss, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clemente, Roberto, 1934-1972.

Clemente, Roberto.

Baseball players--Puerto Rico--Biography.

Baseball players.

Puerto Rico.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

401 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2006]

Summary:

On New Year's Eve, 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver supplies to Nicaragua after an earthquake. Journalist Maraniss now brings the great baseball player back to life. Anyone who saw Clemente play will never forget him--he was a work of art in a game too often defined by statistics. But Clemente was that rare athlete who rose above sports to become a symbol of larger themes. Born in rural Puerto Rico, at a time when there were no blacks or Puerto Ricans playing organized ball in the United States, Clemente went on to become the greatest Latino player in the major leagues, a ballplayer of determination, grace, and dignity who paved the way and set the highest standard for waves of Latino players who followed in later generations.--From publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-387) and index.

ISBN:

0743217810

OCLC:

63179088

Publisher Number:

9780743217811

Online:

Publisher description