![]() ![]() Physically, he didn’t get much bigger in his 18 seasons with the Pirates, competing at 182 pounds in 1972, but he grew in stature with each passing year. His rookie card records that when he first joined the team in 1955, he stood 5’11” tall and weighed just 175 pounds, lean by today’s standards when baseball stars are both literally and figuratively larger than life. Left unprotected by the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Montreal farm club, Pittsburgh claimed him for $4,000 in the minor league draft of 1954. It is 65 years now since Roberto Clemente first suited up for the Pirates.
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