Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos

This picture-book biography follows Roberto Clemente from his childhood in Carolina, Puerto Rico, where he practiced baseball with tree branches and tin cans. At nineteen, he joined a major-league organization and first went to Montreal, where he waited for an opportunity to play. He later joined the Pittsburgh Pirates and made an immediate impact on the field. The book also presents Clemente’s legacy as a Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer whose life included confronting prejudice and hardship.