Montrew Dunham

Roberto Clemente (eBook, ePUB)

Young Ball Player
Illustrator: Henderson, Meryl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Roberto Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player. He played 18 seasons at right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a National League, Most Valuable Player once, All-Star twelve times (15 games), batting champion four times, and Gold Glove winner twelve times. In 1972, Clemente got his 3,000th major league hit.

Clemente was very involved in charity work in Puerto Rico and Latin American countries during the off seasons. He died in an airplane accident on December 31, 1972, while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

Now readers can explore how his childhood influenced his life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439136522
• Artikelnr.: 49189852

Autorenporträt

Montrew Dunham is the author of a number of historical biographies for young readers in the popular Childhood of Famous Americans series. When she isn't writing, she loves spending time with her family, children, and grandchildren in Illinois and Texas.