Call Me Roberto! Knocks it Out of the Park!
Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos (Calkins Creek, 2024), by Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez (Ages 7-10). Unless you’re an avid baseball fan, you probably remember Roberto Clemente as the baseball player known for his humanitarian work. Clemente died on December 31, 1972, when the plane he chartered to take supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed shortly after takeoff. In 2002 (30 years after his death), Major League Baseball (“MLB”) proclaimed September 15 as “Roberto Clemente Day.” Each year at the World