Supreme Court must go to bat for baseball great Roberto Clemente — and defend our property rights

Roberto Clemente collected exactly 3,000 hits in his Hall of Fame career.

Puerto Rico’s government collected something else from his name: roughly $15 million.

In 2021, the commonwealth enacted laws requiring motorists to pay extra for license plates and registration tags bearing the baseball legend’s name, image, jersey number 21 and references to his hit total.

The money went into a government fund.

But Clemente’s sons, who have spent decades preserving and licensing their father’s trademark and humanitarian legacy, objected to the program — and received none of its proceeds.

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Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.