SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A 20-cent commemorative stamp honoring baseball great Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates will be issued Friday in the San Juan suburb where he was born.
The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday ceremonies are planned for the suburb of Carolina.
Clemente, who spent 18 years with the Pirates, captured 11 Golden Glove awards in right field, held a .317 lifetime batting average (the best among active players at that time), amassed 3,000 hits, played in 12 All-Star games and won the National League batting championship five times.
He was killed on New Year's Eve in 1972 when his plane crashed while on a mercy mission to Nicaragua to distribute supplies to earthquake victims.
Shortly after his death, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
