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Roberto Clemente played his entire 18-season major league career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, amassing exactly 3,000 base hits and a career batting average of .317. Clemente won four National League batting titles, was named as the NL MVP in 1966, and was a top defensive outfielder as well, winning 12 gold glove awards. Along with his reputation as an elite baseball player, Clemente was also known as a humanitarian, often performing humanitarian work in his native Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries during the offseason. On December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente died when his plane crashed en route to delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Clemente was posthumously elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973.

Known as the ‘Wizard of Westwood’, John Wooden coached the UCLA Bruins’ basketball team for 27 seasons. He won 10 NCAA Championships, including an unprecedented 7 in a row from 1967-1973. During that 7 year run, UCLA compiled a record of 205-5, including an 88-game winning streak. His teams had four different perfect 30-0 seasons during his career. John Wooden was also an All-American as a player many years earlier and he was the first person ever to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.