Map and timeline of newspaper matches for Clemente's early Pirates years
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Clemente's early Pirates years

The Puerto Rican outfielder began his Pittsburgh Pirates career in 1955. Newspaper pages from 1955 to 1957 on a map and timeline.

US News Map searches Chronicling America, the Library of Congress collection of digitized American newspapers, and maps every matching page by where and when it was printed. Play the timeline to watch a word or a story move across the country.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

Sample results

118 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (56 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1955-01-24, page 19

    … managed to round up a list of highly prom ising rookies, headed by Out fielders Roberto Clemente, Ean Smith and Lee Walls; Infielders Gene and George Freese and Reno De Benedetti …

  2. Evening Star — 1955-02-09, page 63

    … players accepting con tracts were Outfielder Andy PasI ko of the Braves, Outfielder Roberto Clemente and Tom Saf i fell and Catcher Jim Mangan of i the Pirates, and Outfielder Tom …

  3. Evening Star — 1955-02-28, page 15

    … Spooner and Chico Fernandez. Dodgers; Bob Lennon, Giants; Jim Owens, Phillies; Roberto Clemente and Gene Freese, Pi rates; Ray Crone, Braves, and Jim Pearce, Redlegs. Even the …

  4. Evening Star — 1955-03-21, page 22

    … Groat. Ward continued to second on Ernie Oravetz’ throw to the plate and scored on Roberto Clemente's double. Witl? two down in the 13th, i the Senators got tome encourage ’Weary …

  5. Evening Star — 1955-03-22, page 44

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … winning run with two out in the ninth as Pittsburgh lost, 4-3. Rookie Outfielder Roberto Clemente homered for the Pirates. st. Louis not only lost to Philadelphia, 80. but First …

  6. Evening Star — 1955-04-19, page 51

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … 915 were on hand as Don Liddle gave up just one run an inside-the-park homer by Roberto Clemente-before firing in the ninth. left because Of wildness in the home sixth. Ed Roebuck …

  7. Evening Star — 1955-05-04, page 86

    … Pirates hopped on Warren Spahn for two runs in the first, one of them a homer by Roberto Clemente, another in the second inning and their fourth in the third. Littlefield himself …

  8. Evening Star — 1955-05-05, page 78

    … major league career. Ruben Gomez won the tense mound duel from Sam Jones. Rookie Roberto Clemente made a spectacular catch to save the Pittsburgh game. He ran deep to the rightfleld …

  9. Evening Star — 1955-05-13, page 57

    … and threw just one more pitch outside the strike zone while fanning Dick Groat. Roberto Clemente and Frank Thomas to become the first Cub to hurl a no-hitter in 40 years and the …

  10. Evening Star — 1955-05-22, page 68

    … away and Gordon reached first safely. Durocher then called on Grissom, who got Roberto Clemente to fly out to , end the Inning. ! Ron Kline was charged with his fourth setback …

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