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Narrated
by Bob Prince, voice of the Pittsburgh
Pirates with John Facenda the Roberto
Clemente Memorial Album was
manufactured by Triple B Production
Corp. The album released in March
1973, was produced in tribute to the
Pittsburgh Pirates baseball legend
Roberto Clemente shortly after his
untimely death. Clemente was killed in
a plane crash off the coast of Puerto
Rico on December 31, 1972 attempting to
fly relief supplies to earthquake
victims in Nicaragua.
The LP record album, authorized by the Pirates, traces the superstar's
career through play-by-play excerpts,
commentary by President Nixon, Bing
Crosby, baseball commissioner Bowie
Kuhn and Many of Clemente's teammates.
Steve Blass, Dave Cash, Manny
Sanguillen and Willie Stargell among
others. There are two versions of the
Clemente album, one in English and one
in Spanish. The first version in
English was produced in early March,
1973.
On June 26, the Borden company agreed to buy 15,000 copies of the Clemente
album. It was made available on July 25
by mailing a coupon from Wise Potato
Chip packages, $3.00 plus the Wise owl
from any package of wise snacks, to
Borden, Inc. The record had a retail
value of $5.95. These records have a
Borden record label. The net proceeds
from the sales were given by Borden,
Inc. to "Youth City," a center to help
underprivileged children in Clemente's
native Puerto Rico.
In August of 1974, John Carbonaro, the record promoter who started the
project for the Roberto Clemente
Memorial Album was indicted on charges
of pocketing $185.512 of the proceeds.
Fifty counts of obtaining money under
false pretenses and one count of fraud.
The indictment also charged that no
money was ever turned over to the
Roberto Clemente Memorial Fund, or to
any other origination in Puerto Rico.
In December Carbonaro pleaded Guilty
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