Roberto Clemente

CTL-E-5975 · Person · other · 1955–1972

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Combined Graph record U-07211 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5975.

Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker, born 18 August 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, was a proud Afro-Latino right fielder who played all 18 of his major league seasons (1955–1972) for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The youngest child of a sugarcane worker and a laundress, he confronted Jim Crow segregation directly when the Pirates traveled in the South, and he defended Black and Latino players throughout his career. On the field he collected exactly 3,000 hits, batted .317, won four National League batting titles, twelve consecutive Gold Gloves and the 1966 NL MVP Award, and starred for World Series champions in 1960 and 1971, when he was World Series MVP. On 31 December 1972 he died in a plane crash off Isla Verde while personally accompanying earthquake-relief supplies to Nicaragua. In 1973 he became the first Latin American player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The record

• Also known as: Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker, The Great One

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 10; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Roberto Clemente entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5975 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1107 (Baseball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Afro-Puerto Rican — U.S. House resolution H.Res.242 (118th Congress) states Clemente was 'known for being a proud Afro-Latino' and records his treatment as a Black player under Jim Crow (Congress.gov). Vital status: DECEASED — 31 December 1972, in the crash of his chartered relief flight to Nicaragua off Isla Verde, Puerto Rico (Wikipedia / Hall of Fame record). Tribute treatment applies. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Career (Hall of Fame record): .317 batting average, exactly 3,000 hits, 240 HR, 1,305 RBI; 4 NL batting titles; 12 consecutive Gold Gloves (1961–1972); NL MVP 1966; World Series champion 1960 and 1971 (MVP). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons portrait of Clemente in a Pirates uniform; no file page read at file-page level — CTL-PHOTO-001; CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5975-roberto-clemente.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked — no matching CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• U.S. Congress, H.Res.242 (118th Congress), Congress.gov — Clemente 'known for being a proud Afro-Latino'; encountered Jim Crow laws as a Black player in Richmond and Florida; defended the rights of Black and Brown people; born 18 August 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, to Melchor Clemente and Luisa Walker — https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/242/text (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, “Roberto Clemente” — 18 seasons with Pittsburgh; killed 31 December 1972 when his chartered DC-7 relief flight to Nicaragua crashed off Isla Verde; posthumously inducted 1973, first Latino and Caribbean player in the Hall of Fame — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Clemente (build store)
• Simple Wikipedia, “Roberto Clemente” — career statistics: .317 average, 3,000 hits, 240 HR, 1,305 RBI; 15× All-Star, 12× Gold Glove, NL MVP 1966, World Series MVP 1971; Hall of Fame induction 1973, 92.7% first ballot — https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Clemente (build store)

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