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- Author: Jim O'Brien
- Publisher: James P. O'Brien Publishing
- ISBN:
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Languages : en
- Pages : 458
Remembering Roberto: Former Teammates and Players from His Era Share Thoughts on Roberto Clemente
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- Author: Jim Bark
- Publisher: Outskirts Press
- ISBN: 9781977242341
- Category : Sports & Recreation
- Languages : en
- Pages : 120
Remembering Roberto is a collection of handwritten thoughts on Roberto Clemente by former teammates and players from his era. Over a two year period the author wrote to these men who now range in age from mid seventies to early nineties and asked them to comment on Roberto. The players featured in this book graciously replied. Each comment is accompanied by a baseball card of the player along with career statistics and highlights to make this book a unique and enjoyable reading experience for fans of Roberto Clemente and baseball fans in general. Among the 97 players contributing to this book are Vern Law, Bill Mazeroski, Dick Groat, Al Oliver, Steve Blass, Carl Erskine, Steve Garvey, Juan Marichal, Bobby Shantz, Brooks Robinson, and Jim Palmer.
Pride of Puerto Rico
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- Author: Paul Robert Walker
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN: 9780152634209
- Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
- Languages : en
- Pages : 180
A biography of the baseball superstar from Puerto Rico who, before his untimely death in a 1972 airplane crash, was noted for his achievements on and off the baseball field.
Roberto Clemente
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- Author: Bruce Markusen
- Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
- ISBN: 9781582613123
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Languages : en
- Pages : 406
Twenty-five years ago, Roberto Clemente made baseball history when he became the first Latin American to enter the Hall of Fame. Roberto Clemente: The Great One explores one of the game's most dynamic players and perhaps its most selfless humanitarian. From modest beginnings in Carolina, Puerto Rico, to a legendary career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, to his tragically premature death in a plane crash, The Great One details the story of one of baseball's most compelling characters. Interviews with teammates Willie Stargell and Al Oliver, former major league commissioner Bowie Kuhn, and dose friends of Clemente lend insight into his character and contributions. The Great One fully examines Clemente's legacy, at a time of unprecedented success for Latin American players.
Dangerous Border Crossers
In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits
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- Author: Isabella Rossellini
- Publisher:
- ISBN: 9783829602426
- Category : Art
- Languages : en
- Pages : 148
Roberto Rossellini, famous Italian film director and icon of neorealism, would have been 100 years old on 8 May 2006. Isabella Rosellini, offspring of the Bergman/Rossellini cinema dynasty, herself a film star, author and celebrated photo model has dreamed up a very special hommage to her father on the centenary of his birth.
Friends, Lovers and More
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- Author: Bernadette Lyttle-Smith
- Publisher: AuthorHouse
- ISBN: 147720850X
- Category : Fiction
- Languages : en
- Pages : 389
FRIENDS, LOVERS AND MORE The hardships of New York force Italian immigrants, Camille Rosario and her parents to travel to sleepy Paola, Kansas, for a new life. One girl softens the rejection of the other students and despite a three year difference in age, colliding personalities and temperaments, Camille and Opal Richards forge a friendship. At thirteen, Camilles exceptional sewing skills kick-starts a life-long seamstress career. Hilarity and patience keep Camille and Opal working side by side as boss and accountant, meeting the challenges of happy, sad and outrageous Midwest brides. Camilles height is short, her weight is plump, her nose is big and despite a delightful personality her social life is a dismal one. Tall, beautiful Opal challenges societys mores by raising a child out of wedlock with Camilles help. Through the Depression, the Dirty Thirties, War, Rock n Roll, Segregation, Camille and Opal endure broken engagements, death, polio, tornados and life threatening health issues to celebrate each other strengths and happiness. Humor and loyalty bind two friends together through disappointments and triumphs.
Clemente!
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- Author: Kal Wagenheim
- Publisher: Open Road Media
- ISBN: 1497632935
- Category : Biography & Autobiography
- Languages : en
- Pages : 112
Roberto Clemente, one of history's greatest and most memorable Hispanic baseball stars, led a remarkable professional and personal life, until he met an untimely death in 1972 in a plane crash while on a mission of mercy to the site of a disastrous earthquake in Nicaragua. The first Latin American player to be recognized by the Baseball Hall of Fame, Clemente is honored once again in this book that illustrates his dramatic life from his childhood in Puerto Rico to his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Silence of the Wave
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- Author: Gianrico Carofiglio
- Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
- ISBN: 1908524243
- Category : Fiction
- Languages : en
- Pages : 170
Roberto Marais is haunted by his past as an under-cover carabinieri. A time of cynicism and corruption, in the world he investigated, and in his own soul. A meeting with Emma—like Roberto ravaged by guilt—begins to revive him. When her teenage son asks Roberto to help him conquer his nightmares, Roberto at last achieves a true rebirth.
