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Call me Roberto! : Roberto Clemente goes to bat for Latinos / Nathalie Alonso ; art by Rudy Gutierrez.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781635928112
  • 1635928117
Other title:
  • Roberto Clemente goes to bat for Latinos
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.357092 B 23/eng/20240822
LOC classification:
  • GV865.C45 A46 2024
Summary: 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.
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Picture Books MVS Library Children's Room Picture Books PIC CLE BIOGRAPHY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4010642

Contains historical backmatter including photgraphs, timeline, glossary and and translation of Spanish phrases included in the text.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

In English with some Spanish vocabulary and quotations.

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