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Very Local: Walk through history at the Clemente Museum

Very Local: Walk through history at the Clemente Museum
We're always looking for the unique finds in the bird that celebrate the people and the culture. And today that brings us to the Clemente Museum, *** former Pittsburgh pirate who lost his life too young and was as impressive off the field as he was on the field. Yo, growing up, I was *** huge baseball fan. You would always hear about Roberto Clemente now to be able to go to what was *** firehouse, but it's now like the largest exhibit of his memorabilia. It's kind of crazy. You know what I mean? Plus they got Engine House 25 wines in the basement, you know. Yeah. You know, vintage wines, vintage baseball seems like we got *** theme going on this episode. Look, bro, I, I never had like wine at *** baseball game. I'm willing to try it. Let's get in here. All right, man. It's impossible for *** baseball fan not to know who number 21 was and the extraordinary life he led outfielder Roberto Clemente had an impressive baseball career that surpassed only by his humanitarian efforts in his home of Puerto Rico and beyond. How's it going? Welcome. What's happening day? How you doing? My name is Dwayne Reeder. Met Clemente when I was *** little kid and I got an autograph from him. So when I finally get to go to Puerto Rico and, and I get to meet his widow, Vera and his boys, I noticed that everything in her house was ruined by tropical storms and hurricanes. So I said I could help you with your photos. Bring him back to Pittsburgh, start an archive and it just then rolled into the museum. All these photos, the negatives were in *** dumpster downtown Pittsburgh. I didn't see the angel wings. It took us months of making prints and burning in the clouds to see the angel wings. The man dies in *** plane crash helping people. If you look up the word hero, someone who gives up their life, helping others, Roberto Clemente, we get everybody you could ever imagine coming to this building this summer. We had the Yankees, the Phillies, the team bustle roll up here with 30 guys all wanting to hear about Clemente and drink some wine. Well, I mean, this is dumpster diving. Gone, right? And I love how photography is, you know, both art and you know, capturing history. We built the scoreboard for the 3/1000 hit because it's the 50th year anniversary of him getting it and he dies with exactly 3000 hits. But for 50 years, the bat that he hits it with has been missing. We found these photographs from this guy Jerry Siskin and they were sharp enough to blow up and photo match the bat and the Hall of Fame. They thought they had it for 50 years. We proved them wrong. Yeah, they're *** little cranky about that. Um And so that's why we blew this one up so large because it shows these marks on this Louisville slugger to prove that uh this bat that we found is now the real bat. There's *** lot of good stuff. Let's go for *** walk. If the story of Clemente's life isn't impressive enough. We learned that the man had style guys come check out the suit right here if this isn't the coolest and you guys are hip and you dress well. So you know that that's groovy right there for that suit to be the one thing that catches your eye in *** room full of gold gloves. You got gold gloves in here. But the thing you go to first is that suit, he wins 12 gold gloves in *** row. Um That's *** feat right there. So he's tied with Willie Mays. That's the most in the outfield. 12. You guys want to uh go down to the cellar and see what we got hiding down there. If you got *** cellar of artifacts, we have *** cell toothbrush, we've got some good stuff in the cellar. I want you guys to see. We're at the Clemente Museum home to everything Roberto Clemente located right in the heart of Lawrenceville. Lawrenceville. It's the like number one neighborhood in the United States. If you look it up the property values and how this neighborhood has grown is the craziest place in America. And maybe it started with Clemente and in this firehouse, it seems like the wine portion of the tour is about to begin. All right guys, come on over here. We're gonna have *** little splash. This is why we ferment and then we can sell it for 30 40 and $50 *** bottle. Here's the yin guys because we always got to taste, you know, toast to Ys and I, I usually throw Roberto in there with *** little 21. What should we be tasting? How should we be tasting? Because I, I feel like wine tasting is fancy, right? You know, you know, you got like things like legs and then you got the Yeah, the smell and then it's just *** whole different way of drinking. You wanna slow it down, you wanna, you wanna give it some oxygen. It's been cooped up in these barrels for three years. So we want you to take these wines home and store them, right? And hopefully you're gonna like, you know, we got, came up with *** couple of little Yeah, and, and we put it on. I never, I could never bust this. Well, I tell you, you can't, you gotta, you gotta drink it if I drink it, then you gotta come back, I'll refill and recap it. I might not, I might, this might just be how I show up to all parties from now on just showing up. You know what I mean? I might know. You can't have none. Yeah. Standing in the middle of *** butler like this. I'm about to go, I'm about to go take out *** loan with this just with this bottle. I'm gonna just walk in and just be like there's my credentials and day bank and day financial. But.
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Very Local: Walk through history at the Clemente Museum
It's impossible for a baseball fan not to know who number 21 was and the extraordinary life he lived. Duane Rieder started the Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood after meeting with Roberto Clemente's family in Puerto Rico. Rieder noticed that her house had been ruined by tropical storms and hurricanes and wanted to help start an archive of Roberto Clemente's life back in Pittsburgh. Watch the video above to see the amazing memorabilia at the museum alongside Ed and Day.What is Very Local?Very Local is a streaming app where you can watch local news, original series and more. Keep connected to your hometown with the news team you trust and discover original series and specials that explore your community and beyond. Very Local, from WTAE-TV parent Hearst Television, is available free on all mobile, tablet and connected TV devices.Follow Very Local on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for more.

It's impossible for a baseball fan not to know who number 21 was and the extraordinary life he lived.

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Duane Rieder started the Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood after meeting with Roberto Clemente's family in Puerto Rico. Rieder noticed that her house had been ruined by tropical storms and hurricanes and wanted to help start an archive of Roberto Clemente's life back in Pittsburgh.

Watch the video above to see the amazing memorabilia at the museum alongside Ed and Day.

What is Very Local?

Very Local is a streaming app where you can watch local news, original series and more. Keep connected to your hometown with the news team you trust and discover original series and specials that explore your community and beyond.

Very Local, from WTAE-TV parent Hearst Television, is available free on all mobile, tablet and connected TV devices.

Follow Very Local on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for more.