Editing Roberto Clemente (section)

====Final seasons====
The 1970 season was the last one that the Pirates played at [[Forbes Field]] before moving to [[Three Rivers Stadium]]; for Clemente, abandoning this stadium was an emotional situation. The Pirates' final game at Forbes Field occurred on June 28, 1970. That day, Clemente said that it was hard to play in a different field, saying, "I spent half my life there." The night of July 24, 1970, was declared "Roberto Clemente Night"; on this day, several Puerto Rican fans traveled to Three Rivers Stadium and cheered Clemente while wearing traditional Puerto Rican attire. A ceremony to honor Clemente took place, during which he received a scroll with 300,000 signatures compiled in Puerto Rico, and several thousands of dollars were donated to charity work following Clemente's request.

During the 1970 season, Clemente compiled a .352 batting average; the Pirates won the [[National League East|NL East]] pennant but were subsequently eliminated by the [[Cincinnati Reds]]. During the offseason, Roberto Clemente experienced some tense situations while he was working as manager of the Senadores and when his father, Melchor Clemente, experienced medical problems and underwent surgery.

In the 1971 season, the Pirates won the NL East, defeated the [[San Francisco Giants]] in four games to win the NL pennant, and faced the [[Baltimore Orioles]] in the [[1971 World Series|World Series]]. Baltimore had won 101 games (third season in row with 100+ wins) and swept the [[1971 American League Championship Series|American League Championship Series]], both for the third consecutive year, and were the defending World Series champions. The Orioles won the first two games in the series, but Pittsburgh won the championship in seven games. This marked the second occasion that Clemente helped win a World Series for the Pirates. Over the course of the series, Clemente had a .414 batting average (12 hits in 29 [[at bat|at-bats]]), performed well defensively, and hit a solo home run in the deciding 2–1 seventh game victory.<ref name="ESPN 2"/> Following the conclusion of the season, he received the [[World Series Most Valuable Player Award]].<ref name=clemente-stats/>

Although he was frustrated and struggling with injuries,<ref name=srvankl>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m9kvAAAAIBAJ&pg=7459%2C5122874 |newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]] |agency=Associated Press |title=Ankles keeping Clemente down |date=August 15, 1972 |page=15}}</ref> Clemente played in 102 games and hit .312 during the [[1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season|1972 season]].<ref name="ESPN 2"/> He also made the annual NL All-Star roster for the fifteenth (15th) time (he played in 14/15 All-Star games)<ref name="pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com">Official Pittsburgh Pirates Site, Roberto Clemente – #21, "12-time All-Star" [http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/pit/history/retired_numbers.jsp] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201050352/http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/pit/history/retired_numbers.jsp|date=February 1, 2013}} Retrieved September 20, 2015</ref> and won his twelfth consecutive Gold Glove.

On September&nbsp;30, he hit a [[double (baseball)|double]] in the fourth inning off [[Jon Matlack]] of the [[1972 New York Mets season|New York Mets]] at Three Rivers Stadium for his 3,000th.<ref name=bbsmzk>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rXcqAAAAIBAJ&pg=4436%2C402538 |newspaper=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |last=Smizik |first=Bob |title=Roberto gets 3,000th, will rest until playoffs |date=October 1, 1972 |page=D1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/community/clemente.jsp|title=Roberto Clemente Award|publisher=Major League Baseball|access-date=December 9, 2007}}</ref> It was his last regular season at-bat of his career. By playing in right field in one more regular season game, on October 3, Clemente tied [[Honus Wagner]]'s record for games played as a Pittsburgh Pirate, with 2,433 games played. In the NL playoffs that season, he batted .235 as he went 4 for 17. His last game was October 11, 1972, at Cincinnati's [[Riverfront Stadium (Cincinnati)|Riverfront Stadium]] in the fifth and final game of the [[1972 National League Championship Series|1972 NLCS]], won by the Reds in the bottom of the 9th inning. Clemente had his final hit (single) in the 1st inning; his final plate appearance was an intentional walk in the 8th inning.<ref name="ESPN 2">{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Clemente_Roberto.html|title=Clemente quietly grew in stature|author=Larry Schwartz|publisher=ESPN|access-date=December 9, 2007}}</ref> He and [[Bill Mazeroski]] were the last Pirate players remaining from the 1960 World Series championship team.