Discovering the real Roberto Clemente the next time you visit Pittsburgh

Sure, we give Pittsburgh a hard time but once we saw that the newest Orioles superstar Pete Alonso took his guys to The Clemente Museum when the Birds flew in, we knew it was time to reach to our old pal Duane Rieder in Da ‘Burgh to invite us behind the scenes for 21 tales of Roberto Clemente that only the curator of this fabulous place can bring to life.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Share information with Baltimore-positive listeners about how to book tours or open houses at the Roberto Clemente Museum ahead of upcoming NFL Draft weekend.
• [ ] Host a batting practice session at the Clemente Museum rooftop batting cage for Nestor once the facility is complete.

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Sponsors

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the Maryland crab cake tour, mentioning three scheduled events and a potential fourth one.
• He highlights the involvement of Steve Miles, who will discuss law and sports, and mentions the Maryland lottery as a sponsor.
• Nestor thanks GBMC for keeping him healthy and mentions his upcoming checkup.
• He also appreciates Farnan and Dermer for providing plumbing services during a leak incident.

Introduction to the Clemente Museum

• Nestor talks about the Pittsburgh Pirates sweeping the Orioles and mentions a museum discussed by Ben McDonald and Kevin Brown.
• He introduces Duane Rieder, the founder and curator of the Roberto Clemente Museum, and their long-standing friendship.
• Duane expresses his admiration for the Baltimore Orioles organization and mentions Pete Alonso’s support for the museum.
• Duane shares a story about the dark atmosphere of the 71 World Series room and Jim Palmer’s MVP performance.

Roberto Clemente’s Legacy and Humanitarian Efforts

• Nestor and Duane discuss Roberto Clemente’s impact on baseball and his humanitarian work, including his efforts for Children’s Hospital.
• Duane shares a story about Clemente’s interaction with construction workers at Forbes Field, highlighting his humility and connection with the working class.
• They talk about the museum’s evolution from Duane’s photography business to a full-blown museum dedicated to Clemente.
• Duane mentions the documentary “Clemente” and its Emmy nomination, encouraging people to watch it before visiting the museum.

Memorabilia and Authentication

• Nestor and Duane discuss the museum’s collection of Clemente memorabilia and the process of authenticating items.
• Duane mentions the museum’s need for more donations, especially from the 1971 Orioles team.
• They talk about the challenges of preserving Clemente’s legacy and the importance of accurate documentation.
• Duane shares a story about acquiring Clemente’s photos from Puerto Rico and becoming the official Clemente family archivist.

Pete Alonso and Other Notable Visitors

• Duane highlights Pete Alonso as one of the museum’s top supporters, mentioning his special Chianti wine and his honeymoon visit.
• They discuss other notable visitors, including Aaron Judge and Manny Machado, and their appreciation for Clemente’s legacy.
• Duane shares a story about Fred Tyler, the Orioles’ equipment manager, and his connection to Clemente.
• Nestor and Duane talk about the museum’s efforts to acquire more memorabilia and the importance of community support.

Challenges and Future Plans

• Duane discusses the museum’s ongoing project to build an elevator and a rooftop batting cage for visiting players.
• They talk about the challenges of fundraising and the importance of community involvement in the museum’s success.
• Duane shares his vision for the museum’s future, including expanding the collection and increasing accessibility.
• Nestor and Duane discuss the impact of Clemente’s legacy on baseball and the importance of preserving his memory.

Final Thoughts and Encouragement

• Nestor encourages listeners to visit the Clemente Museum during the NFL Draft and other events in Pittsburgh.
• Duane provides information on how to book tours and the museum’s open hours.
• They discuss the significance of Clemente’s legacy and the museum’s role in preserving his memory.
• Nestor and Duane conclude the conversation with mutual appreciation and a commitment to promoting Clemente’s legacy.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Roberto Clemente, Clemente Museum, Pittsburgh, baseball artifacts, humanitarian causes, 1971 World Series, photography, memorabilia, NFL Draft, Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pete Alonso, museum tours, Roberto Clemente legacy, baseball history.

SPEAKERS

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Nestor Aparicio, Duane Rieder

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are getting the Maryland crab cake tour out on the road three times this month that I know of. There might even be a fourth one. We’re going to be at faidley’s in Lexington market this Friday. My man, Steve Miles, is going to come by and talk about the law as well as sports and his role in keeping me out of jail at various points. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I’ll have Harlem Globetrotter scratch offs. Have a handful of these, but I will have the Maryland treasures with me for the first time on Friday. Also brought to you by GBMC. They’re keeping me alive and well and safe and healthy. I have my big checkup later on in the month as I get older. So colonoscopy last year, check up this year, it’s almost like I’m on the grid over at Gab, GBMC, also our friends at Farnan and Dermer. They’re the comfort guys kept me comfortable last week. I thought they were just HVAC and AC, but they do plumbing, and when you have a leak like I had at 7am last Wednesday, you need them. They’re the comfort guys at Farnham and Dermer. We are appreciative of all of our sponsors. You know, this weekend, it was no fun watching the Pittsburgh Pirates sweep the Orioles, but it was kind of neat. On Sunday afternoon, I heard Ben McDonald and Kevin Brown talk about a museum that I have frequented when I have been in Pittsburgh. The founder and museum curator has become a friend of mine through maybe our my Latin blood and my hall of fame blood and his passion for number 21 and the great Roberto Clemente. The Roberto Clemente museum is housed in a historic firehouse and revitalized Lawrencetown that’s right there in the Berg if some of you are making the trip up three weeks from now for the NFL Draft being held Pittsburgh this week. This would be a nice little stop off to see some baseball artifacts and works of art, literature, photography, all of this good stuff. And if you’re watching the baseball game, even after the orals are getting blown out and swept out on Easter afternoon, you heard Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald talk about this guy, Dwayne reader, who has been my friend for more than a decade, when he welcomed us up along with Coach Tomlin in regard to might give a spit tour back in 2015 when my wife was battling leukemia, and we’ve saved her life and many other lives, and they are opening the eyes of the young people to baseball up at the Clemente Museum. Dwayne, how you been? Man, how’s the photography going? I know that’s your real passion, man,

Duane Rieder  02:25

well, thank you for having me on the show. This is pretty fantastic. And I got to start out by saying, I I love the Baltimore Orioles organization. You guys are class all the way from the from the owner, the GM, the manager, the players. Now you got my man, Pete Alonso, who’s one of the best friends of the museum, because he was here with the Mets a lot and and paid it forward for us and would bring the team. So he, I don’t know if you heard he brought the team over on Wednesday, I had the guys for some Clemente pizza and wine, and it was a beautiful night. And I just here again. I love your your organization. And on a little teeny, sad note, I’m sitting in the 71 World Series room right now, and that’s a bad room.

Nestor Aparicio  03:11

I knew was the dark in there. Really, really dark in there.

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Duane Rieder  03:15

What’s funny is, you know, they people have talked to Jim Palmer from here with me on the, on the on the line, and he’s like, he should have been the MVP of that world series, because he gave up Clemente at home run to Clemente and, and it’s just a good kind of connection Orioles and pirates and Roberto’s the MVP of that series and, and it really just, we get most of our fans in This museum because of the 71 World Series, because Roberto put on a clinic and just showed how he could, how he could throw and run and hit and just lead that team. And he carried him, because Stargate

Nestor Aparicio  03:52

and a senior at that point really well into his 30s.

Duane Rieder  03:54

At that point, 47 years old, and still beat hit one to quart the mound and legged it out the first base well.

Nestor Aparicio  04:02

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So I’m very fortunate in that way, because I was born in 68 I don’t remember the 71 World Series. I know you have some highlights there that we try to stay away from, Dan at the Babe Ruth museum around here. But 79 I’m familiar with all of that. I lived through all of that, all of the pain. Burt Bly Levin still makes me wear his ring whenever he sees me. Grant Jackson, the great, late great grant Jackson used to rub it in when he would see me. They’re talking about 79 and we are family, and Omar Moreno and Sister Sledge and all of that, but the Clemente part of this and his tradition. And look, I’m an Aparicio, right? So I get it honest, Aparicio is still the only Venezuelan in the Hall of Fame. That’s going to change with Ordonez and a couple other players down the line, but I would just say this for Clemente and what he means to the sport and the award and Jackie Robinson as well, but we’re talking about decorated on. Terrible Latin players that really helped shape the game at a time when, Hey, man, we got ice taking people look like me out of the country right now, very, very underappreciated. And I go back to those baseball cards, and I collect Louie’s baseball cards, but with Louie, they never spelled his name, l, o, o, I, E, man. With Roberto, they Bobby Clemente, right? They were always trying to sort of Americanize him in some way. And I think since his passing, and the way he passed, and, you know, on that incredible mission to Nicaragua and died on the plane crash off of San Juan, there’s something about the Latin part of baseball that Clemente really was the first flicker, not not Aparicio or marischal, or any of those Cepeda, any of those people that played the game at that level in the 60s into the 70s. But Clemente is really the standard bearer for all of Latin baseball, I believe.

Duane Rieder  05:57

Well, he’s a rookie in 55 so he’s slightly ahead of a lot of those guys, but yeah, he set the mark, and the human being that he was, that’s the reason we’re doing the museum here, is because of the humanitarian he was, and how he died and how he lived his life. Yes, the baseball part is incredible, and that’s what brings people here, is the sports part of it. But then we tell the stories about what he was doing off the field and helping children. He turned in Clemente night in three river stadium. He turns it into a fundraiser for Children’s Hospital. He didn’t want one thing he he just wanted to help people, especially poor people, especially Latino people. He loved the working class. I have a great example. They’re tearing down Forbes field. They’ve moved over to three rivers. And he, he had 16 years of his career at Forbes, and he’s, he’s walked,

Nestor Aparicio  06:50

what year was that 70 that they moved 70?

Duane Rieder  06:52

Yeah, okay, through the season, they move into three rivers with the new polyester uniforms. First team to wear polyester, Pittsburgh Pirates, 19, opening day of 73 and he’s, or al Oliver, Al Oliver the lumber company. Man, it was the lumber company. So he, he’s walking around this construction site, and they’re tearing her down. And he’s, he’s walking around and he’s sad. And here come the workers, and they go, Hey, you’re Roberto Clemente, can we get a picture? And like, yeah. And so they start gathering, and one person goes, let me go get the boss upstairs. And he goes, No, no, we don’t need the boss. You guys are doing all the work. Come on in here. And he gets a picture with the workers. You know, that’s the kind of kind of guy he was. We don’t need the CEO. We don’t need the owner. Bring in the worker guys. Come on right here. So that’s the story we tell about what a what an incredible human being he was. And then all the connections to this little firehouse where Lou Gehrig sleeps in 1927 and and the steel beams are 21 inches, and it was vacated on New Year’s Eve of 1972 at nine o’clock the same time his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. So when you start hearing how this evolved out of just my photography business and doing a calendar on Roberto in 94 and all of a sudden now it’s a full blown museum for the man. And we keep learning these facts about Roberto that are connected somehow to his property, it’s, it’s almost a little spooky. It’s almost like, who’s what’s going on up there to help me down here, because there’s something incredible.

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Nestor Aparicio  08:27

So it’s been 32 years, Dwayne, that since you started the Clemente Museum. Correct, correct as the

Duane Rieder  08:33

first 12. It was an archive of photos. We have a party for Vera in 2006 and that’s when I really turned my studio into what is the museum. I moved my studio upstairs. Luckily, I don’t do much photography anymore, and now even Clemente has taken over my studio. I just still, I still shoot my baseball portraits. But other than that, I’m not doing a lot of photography. It’s just Clemente and wine now, and the wines growing big time, and we’re making the Yin zin right now for the NFL Draft.

Nestor Aparicio  09:04

Yin Zinn. Is it this infant? Del with the yins? Yep, yep. Thought you were Chianti people up there. What’s going on?

Duane Rieder  09:11

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We were but for the draft, you got to make something special for the yinzers coming. A million people are embarking on Pittsburgh.

Nestor Aparicio  09:19

It’s gonna be insane up there three weeks from now, up on that Riverside, when they’re pulling football names out, Dwayne readers, our guest. He is the curator and the founder of the Clemente Museum. If you’re watching baseball over the weekend, you heard some stories. So I got two directions here. I’ll get to Pete Alonso in a minute, because it is important to me. How did this come at you honestly, because I I think you were on my show 11 years ago as before I did video. Mike Tomlin, you certainly were a part of our whole day with Mike Tomlin. And I text with Mike on on Sunday. Believe it or not, he and I still remain close all these years later, even though he’s the former head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, I don’t know Mike McCarthy, so I know Mike Tomlin. I’ll keep that. With Me and him, but, um, he knew all about you. You knew all about him and the museum, and I think I had you on the show back in the day, but this is the first time I’ve looked at you and really talked to you about it. Um, give me the background of you with Clemente. You seem about my age, and you feel like you might be a year or three older. Did you see Clemente play ball in 71

Duane Rieder  10:21

I’m a lot older than you,

Nestor Aparicio  10:22

okay, 65 okay,

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Duane Rieder  10:25

I got an autograph from him in 1971 going back to that world series year at MVP, I got an autograph from him in 71 and I was just a baseball junkie.

Nestor Aparicio  10:36

Were you at the ballpark when you saw him

Duane Rieder  10:38

at three river stadium? I saw him play twice at Forbes field, and then about 10 times the Three Rivers before he dies, New Year’s Eve of 72 and once he’s gone, then I kind of drift away from baseball a little bit. I get real busy. I I go to school for photography, and I start my photography business in the early 80s. And then I got real busy with photography, and until I do the calendar in 1994 with his widow, Vera, I get to go to Puerto Rico and go to Roberto’s house. And my heart broke for her when I was there, because tropical storms and hurricanes have been hitting that, you know, Island forever, and it just flooded her house and ruined a lot of the photos. And I said to her, Vera, her son, Luis, was with her at the same at the time, and I said, the guys, can we, I gotta take these photos back to Pittsburgh. They’re just getting destroyed here. And they were like, Okay. And I was like, wait, that was way too easy. I’m going to take all your photos here in the basement back to Pittsburgh. And the originals are never coming back to Puerto Rico. The Originals are going to stay with me in Pittsburgh in a dry climate, and they were like, Let’s do it. So that day, we started the they made me the official Clemente family archivist. And I spent 12 years collecting other photos and negatives and becoming friends with photographers and calling newspapers and magazines and getting that angel wings image out of a dumpster downtown when our morning papers buying out the afternoon paper. So all kinds of good things were happening as the collection was building. I spent a lot of my photography money on the side getting a lot of that stuff. And have a hell of an archive right now. We’ve got probably 3000 negatives, transparencies and original pieces of film that were all used in the documentary. There’s a documentary out called Clemente that just got nominated for an Emmy. So tell your you know your people should watch that before they come here.

Nestor Aparicio  12:33

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Where can they find that?

Duane Rieder  12:35

That’s out there. I think you can get Amazon. You get Apple TV. There’s two bunch of ways. The History Channel picked it up first, and they were showing it, but then you had to watch deal with commercials, and people grumble about commercials, but a lot of people now are streaming it, I think, through Apple and it’s, it’s really well done. We worked on it for six years, and finally got it launched, and so it’s out to the public, and it gives you a kind of a behind the scenes of what you know, what the story of Roberto, and that way, when you come here, and then you see the stuff you know with your own eyes, it’s, it’s, it’s a nice tie. Tie together.

Nestor Aparicio  13:13

Dwayne reader is the curator and and that really the inspiration behind the Clemente Museum. It is up in beautiful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, if you’re going up for the NFL drafter for my kid, goes up to Pittsburgh for concerts in the summertime in stops off at the at the waterfall house on the way up there, past Deep Creek Lake, all that good stuff going on. Make sure that that you stop and see the Clemente, really the tribute. Now, how often do things come to you, Dwayne, that you’re like, oh my god, you got a ticket stub from this, or you got a bat from that, or a glove from this, or a picture from that. I would think that when people find Clemente stuff, or you’re seeing things that are getting auctioned off, and all of these more esoteric, Ken golden and our friend over to Robbie’s first base, they have relationship that that things unearth themselves around Clemente, my, my, my dear, late, great friend Phil Forrester used to have a Clemente bat that he had over at the hacienda. He loved Roberto Clemente, but he collected things. Do people show up at the museum and say, What is this Dwayne? What is this thing

Duane Rieder  14:19

I have? Yeah, they’ll sometimes have me authenticate. I know his signature pretty well because Phil Dorsey helped him sign, and I was good friends with Phil, and so I can, I know Phil from Roberto, so I sometimes I have to break people’s hearts, but we’re still we’re buying things. We’re on eBay every night. We’re looking for negatives and film and Clemente memorabilia. People don’t donate much. We would like some stuff donated. If people have some nice things we’re really looking for. Here’s something you can help me with, something of the Baltimore Orioles from 71 if we could hang because I’m sitting in that room, if we could hang one Brooks, Robinson, Frank Robinson, a pub. Jim Palmer, I think Ben McDonald, they’re going to talk to to Jim to see if he’d,

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Nestor Aparicio  15:05

Jim’s got something at his house out in California he could throw at you.

Duane Rieder  15:08

He needs something hanging here at 71 he

Nestor Aparicio  15:10

might have thrown it all away. He might have burned it, you know. I mean, seriously,

Duane Rieder  15:15

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he said he’s tired of talking about it. Maybe we could, yeah, if you got anybody has anything, we could take it on loan with a with a one year lease type of thing, or if somebody wanted to donate something to us, we have tickets here from from the games. Your tickets were way nicer than our tickets. Your ball, 71

Nestor Aparicio  15:33

World Series tickets. I have a couple of those from my dad. Aren’t they gorgeous? They are, yeah, everything of that era was done with logos and some style baseball had a style about it in that period of time. And you know, part of that was the flash of Roberto, I think, in the jerseys and the polyester and the colors. I’m still addicted to that, that that portion of of my young baseball life in the early 70s

Duane Rieder  15:58

as well. Yeah, and then Fred, your guy, your equipment manager, Fred, who’s, you know, the Fred Tyler, of course, he he’s in the clubhouse for the 71 World Series with he’s got a photo in front of Roberto’s jersey on the pirates side, because of his father. And he brought, he showed everybody the photo here the other night, where he came with the guys and Fred’s, they’re the best. So I

Nestor Aparicio  16:24

collect the 1971 belt buckles of the NFL and the end and Major League Baseball. So I’m gonna show you a little memorabilia that I have here. There’s my Oriole belt buckle. The pirates one is in mint condition. This thing’s really perfect. So I do, don’t tell anybody I even have a Steelers logo that I have to look at right next to the next to the Baltimore Colts logo here reminds me of the of the Donald kroner playing over Memorial Stadium. Dwayne reader doesn’t know from that he’s up at Pittsburgh celebrating Forbes field, three river stadium, PNC Park. All the good things the Orioles were in town up there getting their heads beating in over the weekend, but they did manage to have some wine and pizza with Roberto Clemente and the ghost of Clemente at the museum. So give me the Pete Alonso story. I need to hear more about this, because you’re always looking for players that would fall in love with your guy, Roberto Clemente, right?

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Duane Rieder  17:15

And I got my top three are Aaron judge, Pete Alonso and Manny Machado. Those three guys just, they, they just want to know more, and they want to hold Roberto’s back. And they just, there’s something about those three that they’re, you know, and there’s 100 other nice guys, but there’s like, my little pyramid, and Pete’s just solid gold for the museum. He, he joined our club and got his barrel of wine here, and we made a special Chianti wine for his honeymoon.

Nestor Aparicio  17:45

I knew Chianti was going to be involved in Pittsburgh. That’s all. They tried to get me up there when that’s

Duane Rieder  17:51

because of the Franco’s Italian army wine. We’re not allowed to call it Chianti, so we have to say Sangiovese or Franco’s Italian army wine that he allowed us to sell here and raise money for the museum. Franco was salt to the earth. God love him. And every time I say his name, I get, I get choked up. And so that was a Chianti. And you probably, you probably, I never

Nestor Aparicio  18:11

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met a nicer man than Franco Harris. You know, he was nicer to me, the rocky Blier who always had to bring up the, you know, the bad things too. But yeah, I, you know, you’re in such a it’s, it’s such a special sports town, Pittsburgh. And, you know, I’ve gotten to know that through Mike Tomlin and through the rivalry that we have with Pittsburgh in that way. But we have Babe Ruth here, who never played here, really, but and Cal Ripken, obviously. You know, we have our we have our legends. And my buddy John Miller wrote the book on Earl Weaver. He’s up there with the internet in Pittsburgh. He was hitting me for opening day tickets last week. So, I mean, there’s just such a rich Baltimore, Pittsburgh baseball and football rival. We’ve gotten the we’ve gotten the boot on the baseball part of the rivalry over the years, but the Clemente part of that and his role in the 71 World Series, it’s sort of synonymous with Baltimore. His greatest achievements were achieved right here at Memorial Stadium, in that throne right here.

Duane Rieder  19:04

Yep, there’s a lot of connection there. And maybe we’ll be playing you guys in the World Series this year. How about that that, you know, wait a minute. You’re like, Wait, I’d

Nestor Aparicio  19:15

be okay with me. I mean, there’s we in it. Are we in the World Series? Been 43 years, if we’re in, and I don’t care who we play, right?

Duane Rieder  19:21

Play anybody Pittsburgh and Baltimore again would be fantastic.

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Nestor Aparicio  19:25

That means the Yankees and the Dodgers aren’t in it if we’re in it. So that’s at

Duane Rieder  19:29

least, guys. I said we got to get rid of the Dodgers.

Nestor Aparicio  19:32

Well, hey, man, I’m glad to have you on and talk about the museum and talk about the legend of Roberto. When are you open? I know it was a bit of a boutique place. I think people would be shocked that this really is a dude named Wayne that’s put it together with the arms of the city and all the things. Mr. Rogers is in Pittsburgh, got a lot of legendary figures up there, but you’ve made this thing work now for three decades, and hats off to you in the 21 and all that. Roberto. Represents, because it meant something to me. Even on Sunday, hearing about him, like I give Dwayne a call, I want to have him on especially with the the NFL draft up there, because I know we have a lot of people going up for this.

Duane Rieder  20:09

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Yeah, it’s going to be insane. And we have open houses now where, before it was very you had to make an appointment and schedule your tour. Now it’s a little easier to get in here if you just go to Clemente museum.com. We have a calendar going, and you can see the dates and times when we have our different tours and open houses. But for the week of the draft, we’re having open houses every day, you’ll be able to get in fairly easy, but if you can book it, it’s nice to this let us know that you’re coming. So we, because we we max out at 100 people, is our fire marshal law here. So if we can, you know, we know you’re coming, if you say, you know you got the X amount of people, we’ll put you on and cap it off at a certain amount. We don’t want it to be too crowded in here. But it’s, it’s easier to get in now. So I got into

Nestor Aparicio  20:58

Machu Picchu last month. I think I can get into the Clemente museum. I know people, perfect, perfect. Well, if you’re going up for the draft this month, though, or anytime, really, if you are, someone going up for a raven Steelers game in season, or all of those Oriole fans went up over the weekend, we don’t play up in Pittsburgh often enough. If you get that opportunity, make sure you stop by the Clemente Museum. Great, great spot in a historic firehouse in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. And hey, it was great seeing you get featured. And anything that happens with Roberto Clemente, I feel a little closer to it as an Aparicio because there is no Aparicio museum around here. The closest I got is is the collection of Aparicio autograph memorabilia that I have, and it’s interesting, you would say, being a photographer and collecting pictures that people send me the most beautiful pictures of Luis and in recent times, someone sent me this beautiful picture of him on this sky blue car in the 66 World Series parade. It’s in front of the Chesapeake restaurant. It was a color picture that was taken of Louie in a trench coat riding in the parade in 66 after the World Series. And every once in a while, I find an old picture that’s an alame or, you know, it’s a Getty picture that people will screenshot, sent over and with Louie, he was so swashbuckling, and he stole bases that most of the pictures of Louie that were AP are of his foot sliding in the second base in a big pile of dirt, because, I guess the photographers were trying to get action in a baseball game, and he was action like, like Roberto Clemente. It was action. You know, the Latin players were swashbuckling in that era.

Duane Rieder  22:44

Yep, they were all out. They played all out. They had something to prove.

Nestor Aparicio  22:48

Well, you’ve been proving it for 30 years. Up there. Dwayne reader is meticulously renovated. Engine asked number 25 to showcase the world’s largest exhibited collection of baseball artifacts, works of art, literature, for photographs, memorabilia and related materials which focus on Roberto Clemente, his teammates, his personal life and his humanitarian causes. You can find them at Clemente museum.com they’re doing a good enough job of avoiding the fact that the Orioles got swept again in Pittsburgh this weekend. Wayne, yes, yes. You got it going on up there with schemes and all this, and this Conor Griffin kid, right? Like the pirates feel like they might be coming back.

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Duane Rieder  23:27

Maybe Hearn about o’ Hearn’s got three or four homers already.

Nestor Aparicio  23:31

I don’t talk about that. I saw that

Duane Rieder  23:32

over the weekend. I didn’t mean to bring up some bad news, but yeah, we got a pretty good team, and maybe everything

Nestor Aparicio  23:38

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Baltimore goes to Pittsburgh to die. I’m convinced of this at this point, you know, we’ll see what happens.

Duane Rieder  23:45

It’s going to be an interesting year, and I hope the best for you guys, and go get the Yanks. Go get the Yanks.

Nestor Aparicio  23:50

You know, I played an April Fool’s joke last week about Jason lock and four coming and joining my team. But the best joke that I saw that was not mine last week was somebody took the Ryan loop or the Tyler loop kick that made it go straight and hardball. Still, the coach of the ravens, it was like a whole thing that they did that ended so we have had a really, really rough 2026 in Pittsburgh. And some people are wondering why you having this Clemente guy on because you’re doing good things up there. But nothing good has happened for Baltimore and Pittsburgh since January 1. Trust me on this.

Duane Rieder  24:26

You got us. You got it for sure. It’s been a rough year so far. I would like to mention we’re building an elevator okay to get because we’re not handicap accessible to the second floor. Okay? Building it for four months now, and it’s a $3 million project, wow, slightly underfunded, but we’re going to get it done, and we’re getting it all the way to the roof. We have a rooftop deck up there, and we’re building a batting cage on the roof. So that Pete Alonso, Juan Soto is the one who kind of put it in my ear, and so all the players, they switch. All the bats that I have here, because the guys bring me bats, if you remember, I have a lot of game bats from all the players today hanging on a wall that have showed up here with the bat, and they want to hit balls on the roof. So we’re building rooftop deck with a batting cage, and so we’re a couple months away

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Nestor Aparicio  25:17

from having that. It’s not even going to be virtual. You’re really going to be able to hit the baseball into a net,

Duane Rieder  25:22

into a net. Yeah, it’s going to be incredible.

Nestor Aparicio  25:25

I want back. I told you, listen, this is masters. We I told Ed Miller over classic five, my back starting to come together again, that I feel like I could torque a little bit. So I said, Look, I’m no offense to golf, but if I could hit a baseball in the batting cage or a golf ball, I would hit the baseball every time.

Duane Rieder  25:40

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Yeah, all right, it’s on. You come up. We’ll hit some balls up. I told

Nestor Aparicio  25:44

Kenny singleton last week I crouched down like Rod Carew. I have a little bit of a Karoo stance, not A, not A Clemente stance, but I know the difference, at least, right? Yes, yes. I did them all in wiffle ball. He’s got number 21 on his hat. He’s got number 21 across his heart. He is Twain reader. He is the curator of all things Clemente Museum, and the best Clemente storyteller that I know, even though some of the tales are involved 1971 it’s a bad vibes with this buck. Oh, what

Duane Rieder  26:13

a cool logo. What a cool logo. What a cool logo. You know who that is on there?

Nestor Aparicio  26:17

Um, Willie stargel, no

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Duane Rieder  26:21

Frank Gifford, what? He came to Pittsburgh. The artist’s wife had a crush on Frank Gifford. Tell Kathy Lee this he came to Pittsburgh. I have his autograph from the day and photographs of him on the field and sat for the artist’s wife to paint a happy pirate. Frank Gifford,

Nestor Aparicio  26:39

sure that’s not Mazeroski. Come on now. No, it’s not Messer. Oh, just check. Just checking. You know you would know. No, I know

Duane Rieder  26:46

my facts. Call Mike. Let’s see burger. Mike Berger, who’s still in baseball today, believe Marlins, that’s his mom painted dad. His dad, Jack Berger, did all the the images of the logos for the pirates for 30 years, 40 years, and his mom did

Nestor Aparicio  27:04

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that one. When I see that, I do not think Frank Gifford, but I will never not think Frank Gifford anymore, although it looks a little bit, little bit like Willie stargel To me, little bit, but a little bit like Phil Garner, Bill Matlock, one of those guys, yeah, but never grant Jackson, and certainly never Kent to call, although it does look a little like Kent the Colby now, now I know it’s that’s not even possible, because this was from 71 maybe it’s Steve glass or doc Ellis. I don’t know. He is Dwayne. Reader, I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Pittsburgh, even though it makes us not feel so good sometimes we’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.