“Roberto Clemente’s Legacy Returns: Pirates Promise to Reinstate Iconic Sign Amid Controversy!”
PNC Park also features a statue of Clemente outside the stadium’s center field gate near the Roberto Clemente Bridge leading to the ballpark.
“We want to make sure that the Clemente family understands that we intended no disrespect to their father,” Williams continued in his statement. “We look forward to continuing our relationship with the Clemente family and apologize to them and our fans for our honest mistake.”
Clemente died in 1972 when an airplane he was on carrying humanitarian aid supplies for victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua crashed off the coast of his native Puerto Rico.
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