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Roberto Clemente

Chronology

1934	Born August 18, in Carolina, Puerto Rico
1952-53	Plays for Santurce, Puerto Rico baseball team
1953	Plays for Brooklyn Dodgers' minor-league team, the Montreal Royals
1954	Drafted by Pittsburgh Pirates
1955	Clemente bats .311, the first of 13 seasons batting at better than .300
1960	Bats .314 with 16 home runs and 94 RBIs, but comes in eighth in MVP voting
1960	Pittsburgh Pirates win World Series
1963	Meets Vera Zabula
1964	Marries Vera Zabula
1966	National League Most Valuable Player
1971	World Series Most Valuable Player
1972	Injured, but still bats .312
1972	In his final at-bat, makes his 3,000th hit
1972	Dies when his plane crashes during a mission to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua
1972	Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame