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Roberto Clemente Baseball Icon
Roberto Clemente wasn’t always a baseball icon. He fought hard to become the Pittsburgh Pirates star player.
Born August 14, 1934 in Puerto Rico, the youngest of five children, he was American and Puerto Rican. Those were the days of the Great Depression. Life was not easy during the depression, but thankfully, both of Roberto’s parents were bringing in money, so the family of seven always had food.
Getting from Puerto Rico to Pittsburgh where he played baseball for the Pirates did not happen overnight. You can follow his journey in All About Roberto Clemente. 
Here are some Clemente Fun Facts
- As a youngster, Roberto played baseball with items such as rag balls, stick bats, and burlap sack gloves.
- He and his friends would take water to the field workers to earn money for baseball tickets.
- His baseball hero was Monte Irvin.
- He played softball with an amateur Puerto Rican team called Sello Rojo.
He was later recruited to a professional team in Puerto Rico called Cangrejeros de Santurce.- US scouts were impressed with his skill and he was selected by the Pirates.
- He practiced English by listening to movies and repeating what the actors said.
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All About Roberto Clemente was written by Andrew Conte who is the founding director of the Center for Media Innovation at Park University. He has worked as an investigative reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and has won multiple national and statewide awards for his work. The Pennsylvania Society of Professional Journalists has recognized Andrew three times with the Spotlight Award, its annual prize for investigative reporting, and the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania has given him its annual top reporting prize four times. He is the author of the best-selling book Breakaway: The Inside Story of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Rebirth and the Silver Benjamin Franklin Award-winning book, The Color of Sundays. Andrew is a graduate of Dickinson College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives near Pittsburgh.
Bryan Janky is the illustrator for All About Roberto Clemente. He attended college at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where he obtained a degree in illustration. Bryan has always focused his skills and efforts towards becoming a children’s book illustrator. Aside from illustrating, Bryan draws caricature portraits and designs customized resumes.
Information in this article was taken from All About Roberto Clemente by Andrew Conte published by Blue River Press December 2016.
Ace Your Teacher Series
If you are serious about landing that teaching position you have always wanted, educator and award-winning bestselling author, Anthony D. Fredericks Ed.D, has written two Ace Your Teacher books that offer you a look into the best ways to help you best understand ways to be successful in writing your resume and fulfilling your teacher interview. Read on to see how important these books are to add to your library of advice. Make notes so that you too will ace your teacher interview and your teacher resume.
Ace Your Teacher Interview
One of the best ways to learn something is through experience, or listening to someone else with the experience from which you need to glean. We offer you that opportunity through this book, Ace Your Teacher Interview. Because Dr. Fredericks has partaken in his share of interviews from both sides of the market, he has a great amount of insider information that will be valuable to you as you prepare to go after your teaching job. In this book you will receive his wisdom and the experience of many educators who have been around the block a few times in the educator’s adventure world. This is a sourcebook that offers you
- How to prepare for interviews
- Various interview formats
- Interview question
- The best way to respond to those questions
- How to handle tricky questions
- What impresses an interviewer
- How to stand out and be noticed
- Priceless information on how to succeed
There is nothing boring about getting the information that will help get you hired, so on top of that, you will have fun reading Dr. Frederick’s jocularity.
What readers have said about Ace Your Teacher Interview:
“I just got my dream job in a great school district because this book made me a more desirable candidate.”
“This should be required reading for all Education Majors. I spent one year looking for a teaching job with no luck. I bought this book, and it taught me what I was doing wrong in interviews and on applications. I now have a full time teaching job that I love!”
“Excellent tips! I have interviewed multiple times; then I read the book and landed my first teaching job!”
“As the title promises, I aced all of my interviews and had multiple job offers.”
“I had three interviews. Offered two jobs and I got to choose which I wanted most!”
“Every question I was asked in the interview was in this book!”
Ace Your Teacher Resume
The question of how to write a resume that will land you the dream teaching job is asked thousands of times by thousands of potential teachers every year. Finally, there is an answer. The fresh advice and practical guidelines from many principals and superintendents from around the country are found in Ace Your Teacher Resume (& Cover Letter). Receive clarity on the type of vocabulary and key words/phrases that are important to school administrators and what they look for.
You won’t leave out important items needed on your resume. With this book you will have proven strategies along with samples of cover letters and resumes to help you write your own unique and distinct ones.
Want to get past the high-tech resume scanners and electronic databases? Ace Your Teacher Resume will show you how.
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The Author
Anthony D. Fredericks, Ed.D. is a nationally recognized educator well known for his practical teacher materials and stimulating and engaging conference presentations. A professor of education at York College of Pennsylvania, he is an award-winning and best-selling author of more than 150 books, including teacher resource materials (Guided Reading in Grades 3-6), children’s books (Mountain Night, Mountain Day; The Tsunami Quilt), and adult non-fiction titles (The Secret Life of Clams). Ace Your Teacher Resume is the second in a series, it follows Ace Your Teachers Interview. His extensive background includes experience as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, professional storyteller, curriculum coordinator, educational consultant, and staff developer.
Happy Reading ~
Compiled by Ginger Bock
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