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The Pirates were hanging in without Clemente. Luisa was a laundress and worked in different jobs to assist the workers at the sugar-cane plantation. It was the first time he hadn’t played in the Puerto Rican League other than the time he was in the Marine Reserves in 1958-59.

However, Clemente was back for a full season with San Juan in 1963-64.

“She could throw a ball from second base to home plate with something on it. But the wall jutted out and changed directions. Macon was known for platooning, and Clemente often split time in the lineup with Whitman, a left-handed hitter.

Through June and July Clemente often went long stretches without seeing any action. Stargell finished with 48 home runs and 125 runs batted in.

Although Stargell had emerged as the team’s star player, the team leader was still Clemente.

with seventeen home runs and eighty-one RBIs. Feeling good and tuned up from his winter play, Clemente got off to a great start in 1960. I agree with the [Dodgers’] board that we should get a player’s opinion and I would be guided by the player’s opinion. On November 14 of that year, he also married Zabula; they would later have three sons, Roberto Jr., Luis Roberto, and Enrique Roberto.

Pittsburgh won the game in extra innings.

The win kept the Pirates in first place. He had a vision for a place where young people could come and play as well as read and learn other skills they would need in life. This was seven years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line with the Dodgers. During one of those games, in a tribute to Clemente, both teams wore throwback uniforms from the 1969 season, the Expos first season and, at the time, Clemente's 15th with the Pirates.

In 1953, at the age of 19, Clemente went to the Dodgers' top minor-league team, the Montreal Royals. Clemente raced toward the ball and made a twisting leap, grabbing the ball and robbing Watson of a two-run homer. He was the youngest of seven siblings; Clemente had four brothers and two sisters. The Dodgers chose to have Clemente spend the 1954 season with the Montreal Royals in the International League, even though it meant they might lose him at the end of the season.

Buzzie Bavasi had the power to determine Clemente’s fate.

On July 9, he got his 78th hit of the season, leaving him only 40 short. He pinch-hit and singled, but he aggravated the injury. The author of this work (Musick) bears some of that responsibility."

From 1961 to 1972, Clemente's average season was.331.