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H.Res. 857 (117th): Urging the Secretary of the Interior to recognize the historical significance of Roberto Clemente’s place of death near Piñones in Loíza, Puerto Rico, by adding it to the National Register of Historic Places.


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The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress, and was published on May 3, 2022.


This resolution requests that the Department of the Interior recognize the crash site of Roberto Clemente's airplane near Piñones in Loíza, Puerto Rico, and the adjacent land by adding the site to the National Register of Historic Places. Roberto Clemente was a renowned baseball player who played for the Pittsburg Pirates baseball team.