On Wednesday October 22nd we reviewed the information that we found out about Pop Lloyd in our Life of the Mind class. We learned that he has his own field dedicated to him in Atlantic City which is very close to campus. He was an extremely good baseball player and batted .400 averages multiple times. Pop Lloyd was a highly recognized African American player in the Negro League. On Friday October 24th my Life of the Mind class met at the Performing Arts Center to listen to Roberto Clemente’s son Luis talk about his father. I usually do not like guest speakers because they bore me, but Luis’ story was extremely touching and he reminded us that even though his father was a pro baseball player he was still a person with a heart, emotions, and a family. He was not like the baseball players today that crave fame and money, but he was in the sport for “the love of the game”. He started his own chiropractic practice and he wanted to help people. He taught his sons to do what they loved regardless of how much it did or did not pay. Roberto seems like the kind of athlete that I would love to meet and spend a day with just to get to know him as a person. He was born in Puerto Rico and he made sure that he gave back to Puerto Rico by volunteering and donating baseball equipment to poorer nations in South America. Unfortunately he died in a plane crash on his way to an earthquake relief in Managua. This man ended up sacrificing his life for the charity work that he wanted to do. Luis carries out the same principles in life because he did play baseball at one point but now he goes around from place to place speaking about the difference his father made in the game of baseball and in people’s every day lives.