Which line from “Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death” by Jorge Ortiz provides evidence that Roberto
Clemente wanted to help less fortunate people? His name is attached to an arena, a stadium in his native municipality of Carolina and an avenue, as well as this year's winter league baseball tournament.
But when it was confirmed that favorite son Roberto Clemente was the one who'd died, an indescribable grief enveloped nearly everybody in Puerto Rico.
Three months before, we had been riveted by Clemente's pursuit of his 3,000th hit, a feat he accomplished on the last weekend of the 1972 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Throngs rushed to the coastal area near the airport from which the plane had taken off, overloaded with relief supplies Clemente wanted to make sure reached the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
Throngs rushed to the coastal area near the airport from which the plane had taken off, overloaded with relief supplies Clemente wanted to make sure reached the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
Explanation:
In the USA TODAY Sports article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years After His Death," author Jorge Ortiz recalls how the famed sportsman was a huge impact on everyone who knew him. The Puerto Rican sportsman had died trying to deliver relief supplies to the Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
And one piece of evidence that Ortiz provided to show how Clemente wanted to help the less fortunate people can be seen in the line where he described how Clemente had boarded a plane to <em>"make sure [the relief supplies] reached the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua."</em> This effort by Clemente shows how much it means to him to get the supplies safely to the people in their hour of need.
Throngs rushed to the coastal area near the airport from which the plane had taken off, overloaded with relief supplies Clemente wanted to make sure reached the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
