Pirates give again on Clemente Day 2023

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In support of our Youth Baseball and Softball communities, Pirates and @DuquesneLight volunteers renovated an RBI field in Southside. Volunteers spruced up the field by grass trimming, home plate resurfacing, field conditioning, and more. pic.twitter.com/lIcYVK7SNa

— Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) September 15, 2023

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In the city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the state of Pennsylvania, September 15 is officially Roberto Clemente Day. pic.twitter.com/zRvj261LUr

— Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) September 15, 2023

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PITTSBURGH -- As Roberto Clemente Jr., David Bednar, Connor Joe and Harold Reynolds navigated the infusion bays on the Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, they encountered James Bergandy, a long-time Pittsburgher who stated he was neighbors with Barry Bonds.

Bergandy, a Pirates fan, immediately acknowledged Bednar, shaking the two-time All-Star’s hand and telling him, “Man, you can throw.”

This morning, we assembled consolation packages for sufferers of the Glimmer of Hope Metastatic Breast Cancer Center, in addition to offered breakfast, courtesy of Giant Eagle, to AHN Cancer Institute employees and sufferers. pic.twitter.com/E4YYG09A3n

— Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) September 15, 2023

When Bergandy was launched to Clemente Jr., the reminiscences of The Great One, each on and off-the-field, flooded again. Bergandy knew Clemente’s legacy as a ballplayer -- the championships, the All-Star picks, the Gold Gloves, the batting titles, the NL and World Series MVP Awards.

To Bergandy, the awards and accolades got here secondary to Clemente’s legacy as a human. 

“Your father was a great ballplayer,” Bergandy stated, “but an even better man.”

On this twenty second annual Roberto Clemente Day, Bednar, Clemente Jr., Joe and Reynolds paid tribute to Clemente’s legacy by offering consolation packages for sufferers of the Glimmer of Hope Metastatic Breast Cancer Center, in addition to serving to present breakfast to AHN Center Institute sufferers and employees.

“You understand the scope of Clemente and you understand what he meant to this community, but as you go to more events and you hear people talk, you realize it’s not just Pittsburgh. It’s not just Puerto Rico. It’s the entire world that he’s impacted,” stated Bednar, a Pittsburgh native and the Pirates' nominee for the 2023 Roberto Clemente Award. “To have that legacy and to continue to be a driving force in people’s inspiration to give back, it just truly speaks not just to what he did as a player. We’re not here talking about his 3,000 hits or anything like that. We’re talking about all of the incredible things he did off the field.”

In help of our Youth Baseball and Softball communities, Pirates and @DuquesneLight volunteers renovated an RBI area in Southside. Volunteers spruced up the sector by grass trimming, residence plate resurfacing, area conditioning, and extra. pic.twitter.com/lIcYVK7SNa

— Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) September 15, 2023

The hospital go to was certainly one of a number of charitable occasions that the Pirates hosted on Friday morning. Additionally, the group organized a renovation of an RBI area in Southside; participated in a care package deal meeting for abroad troops; and visited the Latino Community Center, constructing lunch packs, offering after-school actions and restocking its meals pantry.

On Thursday night, Reynolds and Andrew McCutchen, who gained the Roberto Clemente Award in 1991 and 2015, respectively, had been inducted into the Roberto Clemente Foundation’s Hall of Fame on the basis’s gala.

“We always talk about your community adopting you and [being] part of that fabric of the community. It's real here,” Reynolds stated. “You can see that, and that is one thing that Roberto stood for. I simply look again with him doing what he did. Nobody was actually doing it earlier than him, no less than to not this stage of notoriety. Players come alongside now the place it is nearly like a ceremony of passage to present again. 

“As I've watched by means of the years, each group has 26 guys that may very well be nominated as a result of they're all doing issues. And I feel once they begin moving into professional ball, there's extra of an consciousness of understanding the impression that they've and eager to be ambassadors in that manner. So, we're in a cool place now in historical past. And Roberto began on that fifty years in the past. Unintentionally, that is the perfect half."

Major League Baseball has celebrated Roberto Clemente Day since 2002, however on Friday morning, town of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and the state of Pennsylvania all formally declared Sept. 15 as Roberto Clemente Day as effectively.

For Joe, who overcame his personal battle with most cancers through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tour of the most cancers institute held private significance. During his lap across the infusion bays, Joe spoke with one affected person who was coping with prostate most cancers and shared his story. Joe recalled one other affected person who was slated to ring the bell, signifying she had accomplished her last chemotherapy therapy. 

“To be down there, to see the patients with their loved ones was special for me,” Joe stated. “To be capable to convey a little bit little bit of pleasure and have a little bit little bit of dialog with every a kind of sufferers was actually particular. And then additionally to speak with the medical doctors and simply see how a lot they care about each one of many sufferers and to see what good is occurring right here on the analysis aspect in addition to the medical aspect."

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