Roberto Clemente exhibit honoring the late Pirates player makes stop at Caribbean Series in Miami

Some of Roberto Clemente’s most impactful career and life moments are on display at the Miami Marlins’ loanDepot Park

MIAMI -- Some of Roberto Clemente's most impactful career and life moments are on display at the Miami Marlins' loanDepot Park.

A traveling exhibit titled “3,000" — a nod to the day on September 30, 1972, that the late Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder became the first Latin American-born MLB player to record 3,000 hits — stopped at the Caribbean Series held at the Marlins' home ballpark.

The collection, curated by Dennis Rivera-Pichardo, who is director of photography at the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día, consists of 10 bright yellow modules depicting photos of Clemente's life.

Several of those pictures are of the moments before and after Clemente recorded his 3,000th career hit in a game against the New York Mets at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. There's one of him reading fan mail in the Pirates clubhouse before the game, and others of him embracing his wife, Vera, and his children afterward.

Many of the photos had been unpublished before the museum debuted in September 2022 in Puerto Rico's capital city of San Juan, which is less than 15 miles from where Clemente was born in Carolina. The museum made its first U.S. stop last September at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, where Clemente spent all 18 years of his Major League career. Rivera-Pichardo estimated that more that 150,000 people showed up to view the collection in Puerto Rico, as well as another 200,000 in Pittsburgh.