The exceptional life and career of Puerto Rican baseball star Roberto Clemente.

Roberto Clemente American Experience

Premiered December 14, 2012
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Roberto Clemente

Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash in 1972.

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American Experience

American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

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