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Shortly after take off on December 31, 1972 while flying relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua the plane carrying Roberto Clemente and four other crashed.

In 1973 the Baseball's Writer Association waived the customary five-year wait and voted Roberto Clemente into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates died in a plane crash on December 31, 1972.

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