Roberto Clemente won the National League Most Valuable Player Award 50 years ago, he finished his career with 3,000 hits, led Pittsburgh to a pair of World Series titles, earned 15 All-Star selections and was one of the best right fielders in the game's history.
But as another Pirates outfielder, Andrew McCutchen, said in accepting the Roberto Clemente Award last fall, "You never hear a story about how he played the game. You always hear about how great of a person he is. I feel like what was most important to Clemente was helping others. … That's how you want to be remembered.