Serving the Widow of My Childhood Hero, Baseball Legend Roberto Clemente

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He was posthumously inducted into the National baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, coming both the first Caribbean and the first Latin American player to be enshrined weighing reader runs the Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Not only is at the honor of commemorating a childhood hero, but also serving that hero's widow, Vera is going.

I grew up in the attic just loved Roberto Clemente and I grew up looking at the press.

There was this little section in the middle, Roto section had color color, almost like newspaper magazine in the center of the paper and I just remember this Roto section they did on Roberto Clemente wants and there's these photos of him looking as cool as you can get any standing on a bridge over top of a moat going around his house and in these fancy clothes. He's got a leash and it's connected to a monkey. He had a pet monkey.

They brought back from Nicaragua for his kids. That's like movie stuff, you know, the kid just like wow that's the cool thing I've ever seen you got a pet monkey who has a bridge to their house over a moat apartment in the country and can barely pay rent start to report nurses guidance just the coolest statistics burned in my brain and then he dies on New Year's Eve 1972 and he's gone like that like saying no more Clemente so now roll the cameras to 1994 on walking across that bridge and get to do this calendar on Roberto Clemente with the Clemente family and go to the Clemente house and I knock on the door to the house and it's a baseball bat with a 21 on it. I go knock knock knock and beer opens the door to the goal, doing, and I'm not a hugger she's a hugger and she hugs me and squeezes me and I'm like being hugged by an Angel just unbelievable. I honestly felt this Laura something going up to heaven. I actually thought my gosh this is the coolest moment of my life so I get to go inside the house and she showed me around and showed us all the stuff and we sit down at a table and I brought the six photos that we'd already completed back in our studio to get her approval should sign off on these photos. These were things that we were able to collect or borrow like Clemente's cleats are back to boss things like that, you know, Bert is gone and so we have to do these still life's and we were spending weeks. Each photograph the cover photograph took three weeks and if you tell me that you tell kids today. There photographers they want to shoot a shot in three seconds.

It goes into the computer paying they do some reading a little bit of Photoshop and boom moving on, we set this shot up. We shot with an 8 x 10 view camera with the bellows with the black tar cloth you know you put the car clocked over so you can see the focus and reprocessed one sheet of 8 x 10" film at a time and a processor that took about 40 minutes and overnight to dry so we really put our heart and soul into these first six shots now at the house and she loved him. She loved the six photos and she's pulling things out to show me and say what you want to photograph next and I'm sitting at this table in the center of her house and I said do you have any rings and she does all rings yes I have rings I'll be right back and it was the coolest thing ever happened. She went up to this wall there was like a painted mural probably 20' x 10' high and she hits a little button and some slick side.

She disappeared so she had like a secret door just like opened up.

She disappeared into it came back out with this wooden box with a brass plaque on it.

It was a quote from Danny Murtaugh from 71 World Series about if you think that were there down out of this in a series you're crazy and she opens the box and she goes here with these rings work. I look in the box and there's the 60 World Series ring in the 71 World Series ring, each worth about 350,000 apiece and in the biggest jerk in the world at this moment I said well now you have any other rings and she looks at me like what and I was like what you know other rings like All-Star rings and it don't you have some of the other rings and she" no, these are the only two rings, I have in my boat. What about the 61 All-Star ring. I knew the story he never wore either of those two rings. That's why they are in that box. That's why they were brand-new they were shiny they'd never even been touched where the 61 All-Star ring because that was his moment. 60.

We win the 60 World Series. But that's Bill Mazeroski's mass hits a homerun in the ninth inning to walk it off. Roberto was great in that World Series. But just he wasn't the MVP he was the MVP of the league that year, even though his number for the destination again and he just felt slighted and so he vowed never to wear that ring 61 he comes out.

He's a man on fire and he's like to show everybody to keep me down.

I'll show you and he wins everything and 61 he wins his first Silver slugger award. He wins his first gold glove and he's the MVP of the All-Star game played all 10 innings and drives in the winning run. And just as I unbelievable and that All-Star game and he gets this ring with like a bluestone unit and I was born in 1961, and so I went at 61.

I wanted to photograph and theme it 1961, and so I tell her I want the 61 All-Star ring. She looks at me and she goes well in their houses.

The big giant windows facing the ocean and she's nodding her head towards the class and she goes you know he was. He was wearing it when he and I might wait. I don't understand what she does. You know he was wearing it when the plane crashed and now my wow I'm the biggest jerk in the world and I look over and now she's crying and then I'm crying but that's our moment. That's our moment right there that we had together. I made her cry. But she then knew that I had some passion or something and need to try to push for that ring. I just didn't know that that made total sense. Of course he was wearing it when he died.

That's the rainy war so you know, but you just don't think of those things and so she said here you can take these two rings back to Pittsburgh so we do and we there's a whole photograph. One of the pages has the 71 All-Star ring sitting on that box so you could read Murtaugh's quote that was the moment that I really know her and I kind of bonded I spend the next two days in the house photographing all these things.

The house was distilled to the ceiling with trophies you want everything you could ever imagine. He loved to play pool and had a pool table in the middle of the house you could see one piece of the green felt because it was completely filled with silver trophy silver Polson always plaques in all it was literally like 6 feet high. Just filled with trophies. There was all the 12 gold glove altogether on the first and only person to ever photograph all 12 of them. I lined them all up, got some new white bed sheets and we may like us little mini studio so I was to incredible days.

She barely knows me at that point, just as a photographer from Pittsburgh working on his calendar.

She lets me leave the next day, back to Pittsburgh with over $1 million worth of memorabilia and so did have that kind of trust and then I guess the good part of the story as she got all those things back where for the last 20 years of her life. She would loan piece of billiard to someone and they never bring it back and then after we complete the calendar and I go you know and she gets everything back. I brought over.

I go back down in 1996 to do a story on and that's when I started asking questions and I start counter listen yet. A lot of things are missing should trust anybody don't give them originals. I can help you with your photographs don't loan out any original photos. I'll take back the photos you house it and I'll start fixing those you can have people call me you can get out of the middle you can quit giving the originals up because people were given back to you. Just keep it in so that's what we decided in 1996 to start this archive of photos that then led to the museum and were listening to Duane Reade or tell a heck of a love story about his own affection and passion for the life and legacy of Roberto Clemente when we come back more of the Roberto Clemente story the way readers story dear on our American store materials family-friendly outside overhaul the offense help to make your home phone number is not fabulous Ashley.com today doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious.

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Vera came over here after meeting with the Pirates and asked if I would host the Clemente family party but that day she asked me June 06. It was just my photography studio on the first floor in the archive room was up on the second floor.

I was like fear, there's nothing on the first floor most of the parties, and I know you're crowded can be a little bit older.

It's going to be overlap players like Orlando Zepeda Mayor Michelle Sankey and seas are saying you all those guys are coming to this party and they don't want to walk down the steps. She goes it's okay will have the food and the wine and the dancing on this for wait a minute, there's going to be dancing all were Puerto Rican dance and I'm like alright, let's do this. So I tell her that beginning June beyond July 9.

She flies back to Puerto Rico with her kids and I transformed what's pretty much the museum today: 30 days just for her party, but they get in early, they get in on the morning of the eighth and they called me and said hey there way we could all come out there tonight because everybody's fine and most people have been there and will come out and have a glass of wine and just walk around for the party. Michael Yost rather get you guys and we can talk so they show up and there's 30 of them and three Clemente's Vera and her two sons Luis and Oberto had been there before that they knew the empty space. The other 27 have never been there. And some of them have never been to Pittsburgh so they come walking in the beginning of the building. We have a photograph of Roberto that was found in a dumpster when the Pittsburgh press was bought out by the Pittsburgh post-Gazette, an image of Roberto jumping up in the air in 1960 in Fort Myers, Florida, and he lines up with these clouds the clouds make angel wings. You can look it up. It's out there now to the public. It's leaked out here family wanted me to keep her from the movie poster but it's been photographed by tens of thousands of people they put it on the Internet. Some guys even sell it on eBay which they're not allowed but I can't quit my job and sit here police email day, there's a big photograph and it's 82" x 82" big and the 30 Clemente sale come walking and I don't speak Spanish and am embarrassed by that, but I've never just so busy here. I just never had the time to just sit down and try to learn Spanish and so they all come in gets really noisy and they're all talking and rumbling pretty close with police at that point I said to lease Clemente said recently what saying they are they mad.

They're not bad, they just want to know who are you are you Puerto Rican, how did you do all this and where did that image come from, and it was like these in a beehive right there were just buzz that was impossible because the image is the greatest image.

I'd say the greatest baseball photograph ever taken, but the magical moment was I just acquired a wedding album for Roberto and Vera and I knew for a fact that she didn't have her own wedding album.

This was an album that was put together by Roberto's best friend Phil Dorsey was really into photography and he was Roberto's best friend and so he spent a couple days with Roberto leading up to the wedding and the whole wedding day and then a day or two after he had taken hundred 50 photograph that no one in Puerto Rico had ever seen and he had just passed away and his son broke into the house and stole a bunch of boxes of Clemente stuff during the memorial service and soul's putting all the stuff up on eBay for sale and I knew for a fact that she didn't have her own wedding album because I was restoring the two wedding photos that she had a house and got ruined by sunlight and I was working on those nuts and she told me someone borrowed her wedding album from her house and never brought it back in so I saw this on eBay like I gotta get this wedding and at the moment in time my wife didn't have her wedding because I was the photographer for my own wedding pretty much and so I had to make prints myself and so you how the cobbler's kids. They never have shoes rights of the photographer's wife didn't have her wedding photos inside assistant at the time. I said David get in a dark room and start making my wedding. I picked all the images I wanted to put the book. Gotta get these done because I'm buying wedding album off eBay. Roberto Vera and I got mine done in case I get caught by my wife so David's in the darker printing. I win the bid on eBay. I had to pay $3500 to get this wedding album which, now that would be cheap if this was back in the 90s so the wedding album comes in its way, way better than I ever thought just unbelievable photos. One cool thing is, he played baseball game the day before the wedding for the team and pensée Puerto Rico and he was on that team so he didn't have their uniform. He plays it up for Pittsburgh Pirates uniform with this pensée team and there's three or four, five photos of Phil Dorsey with the players and there's Roberto in the lineup with the pirate uniform on and there's always just incredible photographs about their fish in the day before and he gets really cool shots. They go to the beach.

I the only photograph in the world.

Burda bathing suit and he's ripped. He was all his employees in really good shape. He had a scar on his arm and he wore the long sleeve undershirt that the Pirates would give him.

He warm all the time he worked every baseball game ever played in anybody to see the scar so there is out on the end of a Dr. radio fish and he said sit in their shorts and this undershirt so I got this really cool cool shots so I have it all set up in the back of the museum and back to the firehouse. The light on this book. Technically, wedding album, and I say behavior.

I have a little something for you back here and I welcome all in there and there's this album and they just go crazy. The tears just start flying out there all talking Spanish and crying and looking and saying all there's a pico Papito. Another thing a lot of the people in the photos I passed away a lot of these kids these are their parents and they're gone and they've never seen these photos and that's justice all mantis is wonderful moment where they get to see all these photos that they've never seen before, their family members.

It was just like it was a win win win right there. The angel wings was good but the wedding album was the icing on the cake and the next day's going to be the party and we got a big success and Vera makes a comment you know at that point I'm doing the archivist and I have an archive of photos of people even know what archived me. So Vera makes his comment. You take away you know it's like a museum here now and I was like whoa that's something archive.

It's cool and all, and let you know we were so lucky that we were able to acquire all these photos and negatives and everything that we had no one knows what archived is you know but museum at some you can sink your teeth into. So the very next day we made up a flyer and we called it Clemente collection at that point because legally I was allowed to say that Clemente Museum excited have that writing yet with the family, but we started going around town with these flyers and drop them off at hotel concierge is and stuff like that.

Started giving tours that day. The day after the party haven't stopped since then, a terrific job of the storytelling and production by Robbie Davis and Monty Montgomery.

Special thanks to Duane Reade sharing his story with us in his passion with us for the Clemente legacy and what a story it is indeed Duane's a fan and he wants to get to know the family and preserve that legacy and he fights for any pays out of his own pocket for notably gains the trust of this family white man from Pittsburgh, a Puerto Rican family coming together around a shared passion and love Roberto Clemente and his legacy. A classic American story here on our American story for 10 years has provided technology curriculum and connectivity of students like Christopher Mr. fire has always loved creating so we learn about the Verizon innovative learning program will making things move like paper models move with the engines and regulate robust and like I couldn't have written a greater story get the full story learning.com just around the corner and all the material family-friendly modern outside air overhaul to make your home phone number not fabulous.com today need life insurance but have diabetes, high blood pressure or unexciting meds. If you're a 50-year-old male even Porky or with type II diabetes. $1 million of life insurance may only cost you about 200 bucks a month for affordable term life insurance called term provider and speak with big fluid 800-700-6898 800-700-6898 or visit Big Blue.com. Remember big lose like you these on meds to 800 768, 98