June 27, 1971 Roberto Clemente's 1,200th RBI comes in the form of a tie-breaking, 8th-inning, pinch-hit homer off Joe Hoerner, culminating Pittsburgh's come-from-behind 10 – 9 victory over Philadelphia in the second game of a doubleheader. Clemente is the first of only six players in the 33-year history of Veterans Stadium to reach the centerfield upper deck. Reporter Gene Collier, in town to visit the newly-opened ballpark, will remember this blast more than three decades later, writing in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the unforgettable moment when this milestone blast struck the "enormous mock Liberty Bell mounted on the facing of the upper deck in dead center," thus preceding by more than ten months Greg Luzinski's celebrated May 16, 1972 shot to the same location.