Chapter 1 Relearning Roberto Clemete (Welcome to the Terrordome)

In this chapter we learn about the struggle and the strives of Roberto Clemente. There are parts of this chapter that compare Clemente to Jackie Robinson. with in this part, controversy arises about retiring the number that both wore while in the league. Many supporters of Clemente want the number to be retired from every team in the league. Some want both names retired. While some supporters would like the number retired in just Clemente name. As of right now the league has only done this for one player and that player would be Jackie Robinson. Regardless of who the number would be retired under I see these two tremendous players as two of the biggest inspirations in baseball. Hispanics are playing one of the biggest roles in baseball today. This shows that even though Clemente was not the first Latino in the league. He defiantly was the first to create a name or a stander for Latinos in the league. Besides the whole battle for the number and who would have it officially retired under their name, Clemente did huge things for the civil rights movement in the Latino community. There is descriptive parts about what they experienced and what kind of treatment they received that the other members of the team didn’t. One thing that Clemente as well as his minority team mates experienced was what would happen if the spoke their mind. If they made waves about the discrimination that they would probably find them self’s out of the league. Clemente was one not to just let things happen to him. Clemente fought the system with everything he had. In this chapter you don't really hear much about his baseball career. What you do hear about are all the things that he did for the Hispanics and minorities for the sports of baseball.