WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
ROBERTO CLEMENTE
Profile America — Sunday, October 12th. Hispanic Heritage Month ends on Wednesday, but with baseball playoffs underway, it fits the occasion to recognize one of the game's greatest pioneering players. Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates was the first Hispanic to be elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. Born in Puerto Rico, he was voted Most Valuable Player in 1966 in the National League, won four league batting championships, and was the 11th player to record 3,000 hits. Clemente was noted for his humanitarian work, and died on New Year's Eve in 1972 in a plane crash while carrying aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. When Clemente played in the 1960s and early '70s, there were around 9 million Hispanics in the U.S. Today, there are 54 million, and about 25 percent of major league ballplayers are Hispanic. Profile America is in its 17th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources:
http://baseballhall.org/hof/clemente-roberto
http://baseballhall.org/museum/exhibits/viva-baseball
http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab01.pdf
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2014/cb14-ff22.html
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2013/04/03/over-28-percent-players-were-foreign-born-in-mlb-opening-day/
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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