Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente became the first Latin American player to collect 3,000 career hits before his death in a plane crash. He led the National League in batting four times during the 1960s, and starred in the 1971 World Series. Renowned for his humanitarian work, he died in a plane crash on December 31, 1972, en route to bringing supplies to survivors of an earthquake in Nicaragua. The next year he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He became the first Latino inducted into the Hall.