Cory

USA SPORTS 1950-1970 There where many great athletes’ in 1950-1970. There was Magic Johnson, Magic played for the LA Lakers. There was also Roberto Clemente; he was a Hispanic American baseball player in the 60s and 70s mostly played his career at the Pittsburgh pirates. Roberto was born in islands of Puerto Rico. Roberto played baseball before he was old enough to go to school. He usually bought rubber balls for playing baseball. Because growing up in Puerto Rico it was very hard to find real baseballs. Both of these great athletes where also black. This made it hard for them to deal with life, because of all the segregation that was going on. This also meant that some white Americans wanted to kill them if they hated them, or had a chance to.
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Olmstead, Mary. __Roberto Comente__. Chicago, Illinois: Raintree, 2005

