Baseball

Hits‎: ‎3,000   Batting average‎: ‎.317   Runs batted in‎: ‎1,305   Home runs‎: ‎240

Clemente was involved in charity work in Latin American and Caribbean countries during the off-seasons, often delivering baseball equipment and food to those in need. On December 31, 1972, he died in a plane crash while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He was 38 years old.