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Roberto Clemente: Baseball Hero

32 pp. | Enslow/Elementary | November, 2006 | Library ISBN 0-7660-2640-X $22.60

(3) 4-6 Famous Latinos series. This fleet biography presents the life of "El Grande," the Puerto Rican baseball star whose philanthropy ultimately led to his premature death. Photos throughout make plain the subject's charisma, and the text matches in tone: "Smack! He hit a concrete wall. There was silence in the park. Then Roberto raised his left arm. He had caught the ball." Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Nell Beram