Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"I was a famous baseball player, I am known for my heroics on and off the field. I devoted my efforts to charity work and became an inspiring humanitarian, as well as a legendary ball player. I became the first Latin American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, opening the door to future Hispanic players. I am Roberto Clemente" --- p.4 of cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Traces the baseball career of the Puerto Rican who, though his life was cut short by a tragic accident, will always be remembered as an outstanding athlete and humanitarian, and the first Latin-American player to be voted to the Hall of Fame.
14) Roberto Clemente
Author
Pub. Date
[1974]
Description
A biography of Puerto Rico's baseball hero, Roberto Clemente, the Pittsburgh Pirate who lost his life performing a final act of generosity.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Roberto Clemente became a baseball icon because of his talent and compassion, and how he overcame prejudices. He was drafted from Puerto Rico, where he spoke Spanish, when he was just eighteen. At first fans laughed at his Spanish accent and some even disliked him for the color of his skin. Roberto worked hard to prove his critics wrong and improve his baseball skills. He became one of the game's greatest hitters while he played for the Pittsburgh...
18) Roberto Clemente
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Meet Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente-once just a kid from Carolina, Puerto Rico, who loved to play baseball on the streets of his hometown with friends and family. As a right fielder, Roberto played eighteen seasons with Major League Baseball, but his life was tragically cut short when a plane he chartered to bring earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua crashed. The first Latin American player to be inducted into the National...