Being Puerto Rican on my late Mom’s side I grew up as Clemente being one of my heroes for what he did off the field. I learned about him in elementary school. I didn’t start watching baseball until 1973 so I never saw him play.
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I learned about him in the late 1970s, so I knew less than you; I was lucky to see Reggie Jackson play during Peak Reggie. That's also when I learned about Nicaragua as a country (before the Daniel Ortega era).
I was watching that three homer game and the had a Reggie bar or two lol