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. Roberto Clemente
When Roberto Clemente was killed in a plane crash on New Year’s Eve 1972, his wife, Vera, was thirty-one years old with three small boys. No one would have blamed her for withdrawing from the world to focus on raising her children and grieving her husband.
Instead, Vera stepped into his shoes and carried on his legacy of humanitarianism for the rest of her life.
After she was reported to be “in delicate health” on November first, the Pirates and Major League Baseball reported the sad news that she had passed away on Saturday in a San Juan, Puerto Rico hospital.