Roberto Clemente played his entire 18-year baseball career with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1955-1972). He won the National League MVP in 1966. Clemente participated in 12 All-Star games and also wwon 12 Gold Glove awards. He also led the league in batting average in four different seasons. He died in an airplane crash on December 31, 1972, while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973, thus becoming the first Latin American to be selected and the only current Hall of Famer for whom the mandatory five-year waiting period has been waived since the wait was instituted in 1954.
