Roberto Clemente was the first Latin American player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, a right fielder with one of the most feared throwing arms in the sport’s history, and a man who fought racial discrimination in a league that was still learning to treat its Black and Latino players as equals. On New Year’s Eve 1972, he boarded an overloaded cargo plane carrying relief supplies to earthquake-devastated Nicaragua. The plane crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff.

This episode traces Clemente from his childhood in Carolina, Puerto Rico through his eighteen seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, his World Series heroics, and the humanitarian mission that cost him his life at thirty-eight.

• Clemente’s childhood in Puerto Rico and the racial discrimination he faced in American baseball
• His spectacular playing career — 3,000 hits, twelve Gold Gloves, and the 1971 World Series
• His outspoken advocacy for Latino players and his humanitarian work off the field
• The earthquake relief mission to Nicaragua and the plane crash that killed him on New Year’s Eve