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Roberto Clemente Remembered – Repeating Islands
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Baseball All Time Great Roberto Clemente… 40th Anniversary of His Tragic Death
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Roberto Clemente - Positively Pittsburgh
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Puerto Rican male baseball player dies in airplane crash while delivering a special delivery|TikTok Search
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December 31: ¡Arriba Roberto! - Sports Illustrated Vault
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Roberto Clemente as influential as ever 50 years after death - Los Angeles Times
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Sandfoursale.com - On This Day in History December 31, 1972 Roberto Clemente, future Hall of Fame baseball player, is killed along with four others when the cargo plane in which he is
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Remembering Roberto Clemente, 40 years after his death
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September 30, 1972: Roberto Clemente collects 3,000th career hit in final at-bat – Society for American Baseball Research
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Roberto Clemente remembered as a big hitter with a bigger heart after tragic death in plane crash in 1972 – New York Daily News