A Real Sports Hero Traditional Geocache
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Cache is a peanut butter jar.
Park hours are sunrise to sunset. No night caching!
This cache is located in Clemente Park. The park fittingly has baseball diamonds, along with tennis courts, a soccer field and restrooms.
Roberto Clemente (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) played 18 major league seasons as a right fielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the National League MVP in 1966, played in 12 All-Star games, earned 12 Golden Gloves, and had 3000 hits. Michigan natives may recall that Clemente hit a home run off Mickey Lolich in the 1971 All-Star game at Tiger Stadium. One of the best players to ever play the game, Clemente was just as well known for his charity work. When Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, was affected by a massive earthquake on December 23, 1972, Clemente set to work arranging emergency relief flights. It crashed into the ocean off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico immediately after takeoff on December 31, 1972, killing all on board. Clemente was posthumously inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in 1973. A native of Puerto Rico, Clemente is regarded as a hero to the Hispanic community world wide.
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