nicolasc needs to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into her being. After all, you are what you eat....no, wait...
“Anytime you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t do it, you are wasting your time on this earth.”
It’s unfortunate that most biographies you will find about Roberto Clemente focus on his baseball career and not on his life off the field. I just finished watching a biography about this man, and was blown away by his depth and sense of humanitarianism. Roberto Clemente not only broke barriers in the world of baseball, he lived a life true to his ideals, speaking up about injustice and taking action to help those less fortunate. One of his dreams was to create a sports city for underpriveleged youth in his native Puerto Rico after he retired.
During a visit to Nicaragua in the early 70s, Roberto Clemente was impacted by the poverty he saw there, and the standards of living that reminded him of his own childhood growing up in Puerto Rico in the 40s. He felt such a strong connection to the people of Nicaragua that when Managua was devastated by a powerful earthquake in 1972, Roberto personally mobilized a massive relief effort. Upon hearing that some relief supplies were not reaching those in need because of theft and corruption, he decided to fly to Nicaragua to oversee the distribution. Tragically, Roberto Clemente was killed when his plane crashed into the ocean moments after take-off.
It is worthwhile doing a little digging to find out about this man beyond his baseball career.
image: nytimes, link: pbs.org, brief overview of the biography I watched.
