Anonymous519
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"If you could ask any professional athlete in history or current just one question, who would it be and what would be the question?"
I'd ask Roberto Clemente why he just had to get on that plane knowing it was a faulty machine before he boarded. If memory serves me right, his wife Vera had a premonition about that flight and she was right. One of the saddest days in Pittsburgh sports history. Former Pirate Neil Walker would not be here today if his father Tom who helped Clemente load his ill-fated plane on December 31, 1972 had decided to join Clemente on that flight, something he nearly did. But Clemente told him to go home and be with family so he did. Unbelievable.
I'd ask Roberto Clemente why he just had to get on that plane knowing it was a faulty machine before he boarded. If memory serves me right, his wife Vera had a premonition about that flight and she was right. One of the saddest days in Pittsburgh sports history. Former Pirate Neil Walker would not be here today if his father Tom who helped Clemente load his ill-fated plane on December 31, 1972 had decided to join Clemente on that flight, something he nearly did. But Clemente told him to go home and be with family so he did. Unbelievable.