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Clemente, a 12-time All-Star who had 3,000 hits for the Pittsburgh Pirates, died in 1972 at age 38 in a plane crash on New Year's Eve. The Puerto Rican native was taking relief supplies to victims of a Nicaraguan earthquake. Roberto Clemente Jr. will take the same amount of food, medicine and other items that his father carried during the original trip. "It's been 18 months that I had a spiritual awakening in which I communicated with dad. It was the first time that I really cried for dad ... and it was then that I understood I had to...

NEW YORK - Roberto Clemente's family is upset that pieces of the plane he died in are being auctioned off, according to The New York Times. Lelands auction house is selling a light metal piece of the airplane, measuring 19 by 14 inches at its largest point, the paper report on its Web site Saturday night. That section has a minimum auction price of $1,500. A gray steel propeller, 14 by 79 inches, has a minimum price of $1,000. The high bid for the first piece is $1,650 and the high for the second is $1,210. The auction, which includes...

Legacy of Clemente lives on Thom Loverro THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published April 13, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. It has been more than 30 years since Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash off the coast of San Juan on New Year's Eve 1972 while trying to bring supplies to earthquake victims to Nicaragua. Despite all of that time and all of the great Puerto Rican ballplayers since then — Juan Gonzalez, Ivan Rodriguez and Roberto Alomar — Roberto Clemente is still the face of baseball in Puerto Rico. "He is our angel," Alomar said. "Clemente meant so much...

Clemente's legacy: Thirty years after his death, former Pirates star is still making an impact on Latin players, children BY KEVIN BAXTER kbaxter@herald.com New Year's Eve parties were already in full swing when the DC7 rolled away from the cargo terminal at San Juan International Airport, pointed its nose into the wind and lumbered down the runway. The plane, overloaded with relief supplies for victims of a deadly earthquake in Nicaragua, was on a mission of mercy. Its five passengers, including Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente, counted on fate to be kind. On this night, however, fate was not in...