Wanting a cookie, he risked punishment. this sentence contains a
present participial phrase with a direct object
present participial phrase containing a prepositional phrase
present participial phrase with modifiers
past participial phrase containing an embedded clause

Your answer would be that the sentence contains a present participial phrase with a direct object.

Explanation:

The sentence above contains a present participial phrase with a direct object. As this is a present participle, it ends in -ing. What is more, the participle phrase includes objects and modifiers that complete the thought. In the sentence above, the present participle wanting takes the NP direct object a cookie. This participle phrase modifies the pronoun he.

what can best be inferred from this excerpt is the pittsburgh pirates had a winning season in 1972., the specific information about the year is provided in the excerpt.

the other options are not correct because we can not assure that roberto clemente was the best since we don't know the information about the other players, there are no mentions about any specific fan either and it is clear that not many batters can make it to   3000 hits because it is mention as a high number.