TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alonso,Nathalie
AU  - Gutierrez,Rudy
TI  - Call me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente goes to bat for Latinos 
SN  - 9781635928112
AV  - GV865.C45 A46 2024
U1  - 796.357092B 23/eng/20240822
KW  - Clemente, Roberto,
KW  - Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Discrimination in sports
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Baseball
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Hispanic American baseball players
KW  - Baseball players
KW  - Biography
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - Most Valuable Player Award (Baseball)
KW  - Black people
KW  - Segregation
KW  - Picture books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Contains historical backmatter including photgraphs, timeline, glossary and and translation of Spanish phrases included in the text; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Young Roberto loved baseball so much that he played with a tree branch and tin cans in Carolina, Puerto Rico, practicing until he was chosen to play for a Major League team -- in chilly Montreal! Although he showed his talent as part of the Pittsburgh Pirates, he still faced discrimination from people who wouldn't accept a Black man who demanded to be called Roberto instead of Bob in the middle of the nuclear-family 1950s. Even after becoming an All-Star and winning a World Series, he had to remain segregated in Black hotels during spring training in Florida, but he never stopped speaking Spanish and demanding recognition
ER  -