Clendenon played in 61 games for the Cards in 1972, hitting .191 with four homers and nine runs batted in at the age of 36, with 13 runs scored and 26 hits.
He came over to St. Louis as a Free Agent after two and a half seasons with the New York Mets, including their “amazin’” 1969 run to the world championship over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles.
The bulk of his career was with his original team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, for whom he suited up for between 1961 and 1968, where he twice drove in over 90 runs and hit as many as 28 homers in 1966.
By the time he hung them up, he finished with a career .274 average, with 159 homers and 682 RBIs over 1362 games and 4648, with 1273 hits and 594 runs scored.
