Answer: Three months before, we had been riveted by Clemente's pursuit of his 3,000th hit, a feat he accomplished on the last weekend of the 1972 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates, highlighting why his death still impacted Puerto Rico would be describing his Career when winning award winners as this helped improved the decade to live up and see him as more than an average Major league baseball champion, maybe not average but still- to win an award like that would put you down as important and memorable.
