Commentary
American Experience on PBS ran an incredible special tonight on Roberto Clemente. Seeing and hearing The Great One again was haunting. Watching him reach his 3,000th hit was incredible. It was only short time later that he took off on that fateful flight on December 31, 1972…
Watch the entire special online here.
Here’s a brief excerpt from the introduction:
On December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente, a thirty-eight-year-old baseball player for the Pittsburgh…






