HARTFORD, Conn — Students at Hartford's Sport and Medical Sciences Academy are once again honoring the late baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente.
Clemente played in the major leagues for almost 2 decades. During the off season, he was committed to bring supplies to Central American countries. He was killed in a plane crash in 1972 bringing supplies to Nicaragua after an earthquake.
The Roberto Clemente Commemoration event has been rescheduled to Feb. 21st as a virtual event. This will be the 9th Annual Roberto Clemente Life Commemoration Event organized by Sports and Medical Science Academy students. Due to the pandemic, we will be holding a virtual event. Go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD5S14FTxTiNpeRYTlBYdvA or This program will be broadcast LIVE via HPATV on the Comcast Public Access Channel 5 in Hartford and Frontier Public Access Channel 6030 statewide.
It will also be streamed LIVE on HPATV.org, the HPATV Facebook Page and HPATV's Roku TV, Apple TV and Amazon TV Apps
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