Roberto Clemente
From 1955 until 1972, Roberto Clemente represented the Pittsburgh Pirates in Major League Baseball as a well-known American baseball player. From 1955 to 1972, he worked as a professional musician. At times, he had contemplated serving in the military while the rest of his teammates were training in Puerto Rico, as an athlete, during the winter months. At that time, the rest of his teammates were vacationing in Puerto Rico.
The fact that his family was fully uninformed of his service as an infantryman in the United States Marine Corps Reserves dates back to the 1950s.The benefits of physical preparation he received from his time in the marines were clear to him. He left the military in 1964 to focus on the World Series preparations that year.