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Log in. He was brushing people back in court, staring down facts, hoping they would just go away while looking for the instant results a player would come to expect from a life in the game. He is the most visible example of the challenge of hypercompetitive players trying to find their path at home.
The shock that you no longer can soar in space while on the ground. You must follow the rules on Earth or get burned. Congress and public opinion are immune to pitch counts, a splitter on the black or a shard of broken bat that you throw at them. Once your last pitch is thrown, your legacy is an unpredictable knuckleball, floating through the air, crafted by forces beyond your control.
It could be unfair -- like a solid player such as Bill Buckner being summed up in an error that happens every single day in the big leagues -- or it could be a platoon-player-turned legend such as Tom Lawless, whose home run enshrines him among the best in St. Louis Cardinals history.
Clemens still wants to shape history, to be like those before him who were the first into space. To show he had and still has the right stuff to be the heroic astronaut returning to Earth after walking on the moon. And, like most players, he is delusional in his transition, a rocket holed up in some rusty hangar doing everything he can to keep competing while he fights to make sure people remember the importance of space travel.
So now he makes his comeback at 50 years old. He wants to compete, and he most likely has the political agenda of pushing time back. Giving voters a longer look at his career, more time to digest that he is not guilty, but not necessarily innocent, either. After all, time will heal, just as time is different in outer space. About the Book Big names have always dominated baseball, and one of the biggest in recent history is Roger Clemens—the Rocket.
As a baseball great, he has shown what it means to succeed, both on the field and off, in his near quarter century of major-league service.
Clemens rose through the ranks, setting a new example of devoted work ethic and responsibility to team and fan alike. Through it all he remained a dedicated family man, not a trait usually associated with the free-for-all image of a major-league baseball player.
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