Roberto Clemente (Baseball Legends) [Library Binding]

Peter C. Bjarkman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Baseball Legends | Publication Date: March 1991

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.

Product Details

• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L); F edition (March 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791011712
• ISBN-13: 978-0791011713
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,219,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Bjarkman is widely recognized as a leading authority on Cuban baseball, both pre- and post-revolution. He has covered the Cuban League and the Cuban national team for the popular website www.BaseballdeCuba.com since 2007 and has traveled widely with the Cubnan national team to international tournaments for the past fifteen years. His volume entitled A HISTORY OF CUBAN BASEBALL, 1864-2006 (McFarland, 2007) is universally considered the seminal work on the history of the island nation's national pastime. Bjarkman has also written widely over the past 20 years on Latin American baseball, major league baseball, and NCAA and NBA basketball. He has appeared in numerous television and radio interviews and in more than a dozen documentary films on baseball and basketball history. Bjarkman can also be found at www.bjarkman.com, www.BaseballdeCuba.com, and on his popular MLB Blog (Bjarkman's Latino and Cuban Baseball History Page) which has been an MLB "Top 100 Blog Site" for the past two years (2008, 2009).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Baseball Legends Roberto Clemente, March 24, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Roberto Clemente (Baseball Legends) (Library Binding)

The book about Roberto Clemente is explaning to you that he can be placed at the top of the greatest baseball players list. I think that if you are a baseball fan you will be able to understand the book a lot more than others. Somehings that you might get out of this book or tha you might learn about this person is that he had an 307 lifetime batting average, he was 15th on the all time home run list, he was one of the best outfeilders to play for the pittsburg pirates, he was one of many to play in the Babe Ruth error, he was also one of the greatest hitters in the league at that time with more than 3000 hits.

RODNEY D

4.0 out of 5 stars Roberto Clemente a Star From Puerta Rico, March 21, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Roberto Clemente (Baseball Legends) (Library Binding)

Roberto Clemente was born in Puert Rico. He grew up watching his favorite players play. His favorite player was Monte Irvin. Roberto always had a dream of playing in the majors. When he turned 18 he got his chance to tryout for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He made the team and played in the minors. After one year with the Dodgers he then went to play for Pittsburgh and he ended up playing for them the rest of his career. He then won 12 golden gloves. He won one World Series and ended up with over 3000 career hits , and a batting average of .317. He was a Big League star and an idol for many.

Josh C.