A just cause will always have a champion willing to risk it all for it. History books are fill with men and women who risked all for a cause.

Whether it was Brooklyn Dodger’s President, Branch Rickey choosing Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Vietnam War Protesters choosing to stand as one behind Muhammad Ali versus the US Supreme Court or the Civil Rights Movement finding Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr….A just cause always finds a champion, history says so.

The champions of the cause always say the same thing,

“…I’m not a Hero!, I’m just a ballplayer.”, “…I’m just doing my job.” or the ever popular,“…I’m just doing the right thing”.

That’s the champion’s calling card…the humbleness and willingness to put the well being of others ahead of theirs.

And no matter how often the champions say these lines above, is exactly that same humbleness and the willingness to risk everything for others, which turns them into heroes on our eyes.

Roberto Clemente was that kind person, a hero!, and Politics in my Motherland let his dream die shortly after his own tragic death.

Every cause needs a champion in order to survive.

“…Roberto Clemente die in ’72 and nobody has ever lifted a finger to finish his work-ciudad deportiva-Government in Puerto Rico is so corrupted that they allow people in jail to vote, and they even never arrested anybody for killing Camacho.”, Puerto Rico Insider.

Although, the preceding words are very emotionally charged, they also happen to be true and accurate.

Convicted felons in jail serving time are allowed to vote during election times and police has never arrested a suspect or found a single eyewitness in the-broad daylight execution-murder of former professional boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho.

In order to understand that kind of life, you've to live…that kind life!, and yours truly has.

Roberto Clemente is the most revered athlete that ever walked on Puerto Rican soil. He was the first Latin American to be enshrined in Baseball’s Hall of Fame and one of only two Hall of Fame members for whom the mandatory five-year waiting period has ever been waived, the other one being the New York Yankees’ Lou Gehrig in 1939.

Roberto Clemente was posthumously presented three civilian medal awards from Presidents of the United States and the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and San Juan, Puerto Rico maintain monuments in his honor. There are schools in two countries named in his honor.

But his dream project was to built a city where families could enjoy athletics together…his dream city was never finished.

Politicians with questionable character and false charities pocketed the donations of all his heart broken fans.

Baseball Last Hero’s former dream is now a sore eye of a waste land, which does an injustice to be associated with the man’s good name and it should had been bulldozed decades ago.

Unfortunately, it just stands there as an ugly reminder that sometimes dreams die hard.

Written By The Voice of One! Julio E. Olmo, Sr.

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