Roberto Clemente

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.

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Jim Palmer won the Cy Young Award three times

Jim won the Cy Young Award three times (1973, 1975 and 1976) and was runner up two other seasons. At the age of 18, he signed a $50,000 bonus contract with the Orioles, and in 1966 became the youngest player ever to pitch a World Series shutout. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1973 he won 22 games and lost 9 with 6 shutouts. In 1975 he won 23 games and lost 11 with 10 shutouts, and 1975 he won 22 games and lost 13 with 6 shutouts.