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Statue of Roberto Clemente (New York City)

sculpture in the Bronx, New York

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ126367197 ↗
Source-derived summary

In 2013, a statue of Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Roberto Clemente was unveiled at Roberto Clemente State Park in Morris Heights, The Bronx, New York City. The statue was commissioned Goya Foods and was created by sculptor Maritza Hernandez. It was the first statue honoring a Puerto Rican to be unveiled in New York City.

Appearance

The statue depicts Clemente doffing his baseball helmet after hitting his 3000th and final career hit, a double. It stands on four-foot base upon which there is an inscription of a quote by Clemente: "Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth."

History

Though best known for playing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Clemente was a hero for the large Puerto Rican community in New York City. When Clemente signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, before being drafted by the Pirates under the bonus rule he was signed under, he did so in part because of the large number of his countrymen living in the city.

After Clemente's death in a plane crash in 1972 and his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, the first Latin American ever to be elected, the Harlem River State Park in the Bronx, the center of the Nuyorican community in New York City, was renamed to Roberto Clemente State Park in his honor. An annual "Roberto Clemente Week" is also held at the park.

Clemente's statue, created by Latin-American sculptor Martiza Hernandez, is the first statue honoring a Puerto Rican in New York City. Unveiled in 2013, forty years after his election to the Hall of Fame, it was sponsored by Goya Foods which had a connection with Clemente who had done Goya-sponsored baseball clinics in Puerto Rico.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Statue of Roberto Clemente (New York City)” as sculpture in the Bronx, New York. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 1972, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Statue, Roberto and Clemente can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as sculpture in the Bronx, New York. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126367197. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013, 1972 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Statue of Roberto Clemente (New York City)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.