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Interim Gov. Baltasar Corrada de Rio proclaimed Aug. 18 as Roberto Clemente Day in Puerto Rico, honoring the late Pittsburgh Pirates star who was born on the date in 1934. The honor comes more than two decades after Clemente's death on a mercy mission to earthquake-racked Nicaragua.

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