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Our American Stories

Roberto Clemente’s Legacy Preserved by a Fan Who Never Forgot

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, long after Roberto Clemente’s final game, Duane Rieder found himself returning to the images, stories, and memories that surrounded Clemente’s life and career. A photographer by trade, Rieder’s interest in Clemente became a quiet pursuit—scanning negatives, tracking down memorabilia, and sharing what he found with others. Over time, the project grew into a museum. Tucked away in a restored Pittsburgh firehouse, the Roberto Clemente Museum now houses game-used gear, rare photographs, and historic baseball cards. Here's Duane to tell the story.

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Listen to WebMD Health Discovered on the IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Music or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back with our American stories.

0:48.8

Roberto Clemente was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played

0:53.0

18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

0:56.8

After his early death in a plane crash, he was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball

1:02.6

Hall of Fame in 1973, becoming both the first Caribbean and the first Latin American player

1:10.2

to be enshrined. Dwayne Reeder runs the

1:13.8

Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and not only has had the honor of commemorating

1:19.2

a childhood hero, but also serving that hero's widow, Vera. Here's Dwayne.

1:36.3

I grew up a pirate fanatic and just loved Roberto Clemente.

1:40.0

And I grew up looking at the Pittsburgh Press.

1:43.5

And there was this little section in the middle called the Rhodo section.

1:44.6

And it had color.

1:49.3

It had some color, almost like newspapery kind of little magazine in the center of the paper.

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