Roberto Clemente: El Magnifico

“Anytime you have an opportunity to accomplish something for somebody who comes behind you and you don’t do it, you are wasting your time on this earth.” At first glance, you might think these stirring words likely were uttered by Martin Luther King Jr. or Jackie Robinson. In fact, it was Roberto Clemente who said them during a heartfelt speech to baseball writers at a banquet in Houston in January 1971. The next year he declared that, “I don’t believe in color. I believe in people. I always respect everyone, and thanks to God, my mother and father taught me…