1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Roberto Clemente Commemorative Coin Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) Roberto Clemente Walker was born on August 18, 1934, to Don Melchor Clemente and Luisa Walker in Barrio San Antón, Carolina, Puerto Rico, as the youngest of 7 children. (2) Clemente excelled in athletics as a youngster and, at the age of 17, was playing for the Santurce Cangrejeros Crabbers of the Puerto Rican Baseball League. (3) In 1954, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Clemente in the first round of the Major League Baseball Rule 5 draft. (4) Pirates center fielder Earl Smith wore jersey number 21 until he parted ways with the team in April 1955, and Clemente wore number 13 until then. (5) In 1955, Clemente made his Major League debut as he went on to play for the Pittsburgh Pirates, starting as a right fielder. (6) When the team traveled to Richmond, Virginia, for games or Florida for spring training, Clemente encountered Jim Crow laws for the first time when the Black players had to stay at a separate, inferior hotel and were refused the option to dine with their White counterparts. (7) Clemente was known for being a proud Afro-Latino and protested the discrimination that Latin and Black ball players encountered. (8) Clemente was known for defending the rights of Black and Brown people, both on the field and in the streets. (9) After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, Clemente and his teammates refused to play until after the funerals and even wrote a public statement showing their respect for Dr. King. (10) Clemente became a union leader in the incipient Major League Baseball Players Association and defended players’ rights to demand better working conditions and benefits. (11) In every city where the Pirates played, Clemente visited sick children in hospitals. (12) Clemente established training clinics, providing baseball lessons and fun for boys and girls in Pittsburgh, his home island of Puerto Rico, and throughout Latin America. (13) In 1958,