Background
Roger Clemens was born on August 4, 1962 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. He was the youngest of Bill and Bess Clemens's five children.
2003
347 Don Shula Dr, Miami Gardens, FL 33056, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees throws a pitch in the first inning against the Florida Marlins during game four of the Major League Baseball World Series October 22, 2003 at Pro Player Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) in Miami, Florida.
2003
347 Don Shula Dr, Miami Gardens, FL 33056, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees dries off with a towel during game four of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Florida Marlins on October 22, 2003 at Pro Player Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) in Miami, Florida.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens of the Houston Astros tips his hat while getting a standing ovation during his final scheduled home game of the season against the Cincinnati Reds on September 20, 2006 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens in his first start since straining his right groin, gave up a first-inning grand slam, and despite homers from Morgan Ensberg and Luke Scott, the Astros fell to the Phillies 4-3 at Minute Maid Park, September 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas.
1986
Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
1997
1 Blue Jays Way, Toronto, ON M5V 1J1, Canada
Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays delivers a pitch during a game against the Chicago White Sox at Toronto SkyDome (now Rogers Centre) on August 28, 1997 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1997
Toronto, Canada
Roger Clemens
1997
Matthew McConaughey, Chi Chi Rodriguez, and Roger Clemens
1997
Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays throws a pitch during a game from his 1997 season with the Toronto Blue Jays.
1998
7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA 94621, United States
Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays pitches during a 1998 season game at Network Associates Coliseum (now RingCentral Coliseum) in Oakland, California.
1998
Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays poses for a 1998 season portrait.
1999
1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees pitches against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium on April 10, 1999 in the Bronx borough of Manhattan, New York.
1999
1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees pitches against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium on April 10, 1999 in the Bronx borough of Manhattan, New York.
1999
1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees pitches against the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium on April 10, 1999 in the Bronx borough of Manhattan, New York.
1999
1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees during Game Four of the World Series against the Atlanta Braves on October 27, 1999 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York.
2003
347 Don Shula Dr, Miami Gardens, FL 33056, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees throws a pitch in the first inning against the Florida Marlins during game four of the Major League Baseball World Series October 22, 2003 at Pro Player Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) in Miami, Florida.
2003
347 Don Shula Dr, Miami Gardens, FL 33056, United States
Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees dries off with a towel during game four of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Florida Marlins on October 22, 2003 at Pro Player Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium) in Miami, Florida.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens of the Houston Astros prepares to throw against the Cincinnati Reds on September 20, 2006 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens of the Houston Astros tips his hat while getting a standing ovation during his final scheduled home game of the season against the Cincinnati Reds on September 20, 2006 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens of the Houston Astros smiles during the game against the Cincinnati Reds on September 19, 2006 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens of the Houston Astros runs to first during his final scheduled home game of the season against the Cincinnati Reds on September 20, 2006 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
2006
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens in his first start since straining his right groin, gave up a first-inning grand slam, and despite homers from Morgan Ensberg and Luke Scott, the Astros fell to the Phillies 4-3 at Minute Maid Park, September 15, 2006 in Houston, Texas.
2015
3325 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, United States
Debbie Clemens and Roger Clemens, arrive at the second annual Coach Woodson Las Vegas Invitational pairings party at the Lavo Restaurant & Nightclub at The Palazzo Las Vegas on July 12, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2016
4 Jersey St, Boston, MA 02215, United States
Roger Clemens throws batting practice on May 12, 2016 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
2016
501 Crawford St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens participates in the JJ Watt Charity Softball Classic at Minute Maid Park on May 14, 2016 in Houston, Texas.
2016
9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd Austin, TX 78617, United States
Roger Clemens introduces Toby Keith in concert at Austin360 Amphitheater on October 16, 2016 in Austin, Texas.
2017
77-750 Avenue 50, La Quinta, CA 92253, United States
Roger Clemens plays his shot from the third tee during the first round of the CareerBuilder Challenge in Partnership with The Clinton Foundation at La Quinta Country Club on January 19, 2017 in La Quinta, California.
2018
1510 Polk St, Houston, TX 77002, United States
Roger Clemens participates in the Rockets First Shot charity at Toyota Center on March 15, 2018 in Houston, Texas.
Roger Clemens
201 South 46th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays pitches during an MLB game at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
347 Don Shula Dr, Miami Gardens, FL 33056, United States
Roger Clemens delivers a pitch during the first inning of Game 4 of the World Series against the New York Yankees at Pro Player Stadium (now Hard Rock Stadium).
1 E 161 St, The Bronx, NY 10451, United States
Roger Clemens wipes his forehead as he faces the Boston Red Sox in the first inning of Game 7 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium.
8060 Spencer Hwy, Pasadena, TX 77505, United States
After high school, Clemens attended San Jacinto College for a year.
2045 Gessner Rd, Houston, TX 77080, United States
Clemens studied at Spring Woods High School.
Austin, TX 78712, United States
Clemens studied at the University of Texas.
Roger Clemens won his seventh Cy Young Award.
Triple Crown
(The story of a great baseball pitcher and his determinati...)
The story of a great baseball pitcher and his determination to overcome a serious injury, this book recounts how Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemmens recovered from shoulder surgery to make the 1986 season and break the single game strikeout record.
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1987
(A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty ...)
A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discoversjust how dark the baseball legend's real story is.
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1994
(A former bowler (Woody Harrelson) takes an Amish bowling ...)
A former bowler (Woody Harrelson) takes an Amish bowling phenom under his wing to spite an old rival (Bill Murray).
https://www.amazon.com/Kingpin-Woody-Harrelson/dp/B00HAKT3DS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Kingpin&qid=1612425887&sr=8-1
1996
(A timid businessman is wrongly sentenced to an anger mana...)
A timid businessman is wrongly sentenced to an anger management program, where he has his life turned upside-down by an ultra-agressive instructor who hardly practices what he preaches.
https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Management-Adam-Sandler/dp/B000GT6O6O/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Anger+Management&qid=1612425779&sr=8-1
2003
(Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklate...)
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from 6-18 years old on screen. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents.
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2014
Roger Clemens was born on August 4, 1962 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. He was the youngest of Bill and Bess Clemens's five children.
Clemens was just a baby when his mother Bess Lee Clemens left Bill Clemens, his biological father, a truck driver, taking her family of four with her. Later she married a tool-and-die maker, Woody Booher, the man Clemens considers his actual father even though Booher died when Clemens was nine years old. About that same time, Clemens's eldest brother Randy noticed his younger brother's athletic potential. Randy was a star athlete with numerous awards and boxes full of press clippings, and he encouraged his little brother and arranged for him to play baseball against strong opponents. At one time, Clemens played in four different leagues with as many as ten games a week; he pitched in some and played infield in others.
In 1977, after his freshman year in high school, Clemens moved in with Randy and his wife at Houston, Texas, apparently to take advantage of the superior athletic programs offered by Spring Woods High School. Clemens was not the star of his high school team, but he showed a good fastball, a good curveball, and good control. After high school, Clemens attended San Jacinto College for a year, where he sometimes dominated opposing hitting and caught the eyes of major league scouts. When the University of Texas offered him an athletic scholarship he accepted it happily, and there he became a star. His fastball was almost major league quality, and he had such good control of his pitches that he rarely walked anyone. He pitched the 1981 College World Series championship game, but despite a fine performance his team lost.
In 1983, Roger Clemens's hard work and foresight paid off when the Boston Red Sox selected him in the first round of the draft. Clemens had a meteoric rise through the Red Sox farm system. Fully grown at 6'4" and 220 pounds, Clemens had the unique combination of one of baseball's best fastballs paired with pinpoint control. Joining the Red Sox midway through the 1984 season, he won nine games and lost four.
The Red Sox, plagued by disappointing pitching, and having not won a World Series since 1918, expected the 21-year old Clemens to become even more that a star; in Clemens they saw a savior.
Midway through the 1985 season, however, Clemens's career was already in danger of being derailed. His shoulder began hurting so much that he could barely lift his pitching arm. Clemens underwent surgery, removing cartilage near his rotator cuff. While some feared that his career might be over, others, like Red Sox pitching coach Bill Fischer speculated that the injury might actually have been a blessing in disguise, scaring Clemens into focusing and working even harder.
Clemens didn't have to wait long for redemption. In 1986, he roared back to lead the American League in wins (twenty-four with just four losses), winning percentage (.857) and ERA (2.48). He started and won the All-Star game. One memorable night against the Seattle Mariners in May of that year, Clemens struck out twenty batters. No pitcher in 111 years of major league history had ever done that before. He pitched in two World Series games that October, but won neither.
In the 1987 season, Clemens had another Cy Young-quality season, winning twenty games, striking out 256 batters, and posting a 2.97 ERA, good enough to beat the jinx that traditionally plagues Cy Young winners and giving him his second consecutive award - a feat achieved by only four other pitchers, Sandy Koufax , Denny McLain, Jim Palmer, and Greg Maddux .
In 1988 and 1989, Clemens was bothered by a strained back which limited his effectiveness. In 1988, won 18 games, lost 12, led the majors strikeouts and shutouts, and had an ERA of 3.13. Boston won the American League East title but was swept in the American League championship series by Oakland. In 1989, he was again off his usual pace, winning only seventeen games, and striking out 231. In 1990, Clemens regained his top-of-the-game form, winning twenty-one games, losing just six, and posting a league-leading 1.93 ERA.
It was also a performance that helped propel the 1990 Red Sox to the American League East title and a shot at making the World Series. Only the Oakland Athletics stood in their way. The series did not go well for Boston or Clemens. Boston lost the first three games. Clemens started the must-win fourth game. Down 2-0, in the second inning, Clemens was thrown out of the game by home plate umpire Gerry Cooney, after Cooney claimed that Clemens swore at him. In front of a national television audience Clemens lost his temper, had to be restrained, and was carried off the field. The Red Sox went on to lose the game and Clemens received a five-game suspension and a $10,000 fine.
Before the 1991 season, the Red Sox signed Clemens to a four-year, $21 million deal confirming Clemens's status at the top of his profession. Clemens returned the confidence in him by winning his third Cy Young award, posting an 18-11 record, leading the majors in strikeouts with 241 and innings pitched (271), as well as the American League in ERA (3.62). The 1992 season saw Clemens turn in another successful 18-11 performance, leading the majors in shutouts with five and the American League in ERA (2.41).
Clemens's performance in 1992 didn't help the fortunes of his team. The Red Sox slid to the bottom of the American League East with a dismal record of seventy-three victories. Clemens's fortunes also slid the following year when, bothered once again by shoulder and arm injuries, he suffered his first losing season (11-14). The infamous strike-shortened 1994 season saw Boston still foundering and Clemens posting a 9-7 record. These were not good times for Clemens. Over the next two seasons, he continued to struggle with a groin injury and tendonitis, as well as the knowledge that the Red Sox were no nearer to winning a World Series than when his career had begun.
Clemens singed a $24.75 million, three-year contract to play for the Toronto Blue Jays, who outbid the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees. This contract made Clemens the highest paid pitcher of the moment. The Blue Jays were counting on Clemens turning around his sub par performances of the past several years and making them a contender. Clemens delivered, turning in a stellar 1997 season where he was easily the most dominating pitcher in baseball, putting together a league leading 21-7 record, 2.05 ERA, and a career-best 297 strikeouts.
The 1998 season with the Blue Jays was equally productive with Clemens adding his 3,000th strikeout and becoming the only pitcher in history to win a fifth Cy Young award. Clemens could have easily stayed where he was, collecting his third year of guaranteed money and forcing an optional fourth year, but whereas Clemens was at the top of his game, Toronto wasn't. Clemens, realizing that the Blue Jays weren't going to be contenders, exercised an option in his contract that put him again on the open market.
George Steinbrenner and the Yankees came calling, trading their star pitcher David Wells, reliever Graeme Lloyd, and second baseman Homer Bush for Clemens.
At first, it looked like Steinbrenner's bet on Clemens was not going to pay off. Clemens stumbled badly through the 1999 year. With his regular season record being a mediocre 14-10, all the usual questions about Clemens's age and durability surfaced. But Clemens pitched brilliantly in the postseason, helping the Yankees win his first World Series game and his first World Series ring by winning Game Four of the Yankees shocking 4-0 sweep of the Atlanta Braves.
The 2000 season followed pretty much the same pattern with Clemens barely doing better than a .500 winning percentage. But his postseason was brilliant. First, he helped shut down the Mariners with a one-hit, 15-strikeout masterpiece in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. Then in Game 2 of the Subway Series with the New York Mets, Clemens faced Mike Piazza, the popular Mets catcher and slugger. What followed was an incident that will be forever replayed in the annals of World Series history. Piazza's bat shattered on one of Clemens's fastballs. Clemens fielded one of the shards and hurled it back towards the first-base sideline missing Piazza by less than a foot. The resulting face-off between Piazza and Clemens emptied the benches, though without incident. On the next pitch, Clemens retired Piazza on a grounder. After that the Mets went down meekly and the Yankees went on to win the game and subsequently the Series in five games.
The 2001 season saw Clemens at thirty-nine, long after fastball pitchers are supposed to be spent, reassert his dominance at the top of the game with his sixth Cy Young and a 20-3 record.
The 2002 season was less successful with the Yankees bowing out early in the playoffs to the Anaheim Angels (who went on to beat the San Francisco Giants for the World Series crown) and Clemens posting mediocre stats: 13-6 record; 4.35 ERA, and only 192 strikeouts. Nonetheless, Clemens initially felt confident enough in his value to turn down his $10.3 million option with the Yankees, go free agent, and entertain offers from other teams. However, he eventually re-signed with the Yankees.
In 2004, Roger pitched for the Houston Astros, posting 18 wins. After three seasons with the Astros, Clemens returned to the Yankees in 2007, a year in which he started just 17 games and threw a career-low 68 strikeouts. Although he never officially retired, 2007 was his final season in the major leagues.
(The story of a great baseball pitcher and his determinati...)
1987(Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklate...)
2014(A timid businessman is wrongly sentenced to an anger mana...)
2003(A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty ...)
1994(A former bowler (Woody Harrelson) takes an Amish bowling ...)
1996Roger Clemens is a member of the Republican Party. In 2006, he donated money to Texas congressman Ted Poe during his campaign.
Roger Clemens has supported Cats Care, James R. Jordan Foundation, Keep Memory Alive, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Nevada Cancer Institute, and Opportunity Village.
In 1992, Roger and Debbie Clemens established The Roger Clemens Foundation, which is dedicated to helping children.
Quotations:
"Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation."
"He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee."
"I am intense, no question about it. Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series. That might be somebody's only chance to see me pitch. They might have driven four hours to get there. I'm going to be out there if I can help it."
"I don't really worry about strikeouts except in certain situations when I need them. Then you try, as a pitcher out there, you try and apply pressure that way. You try to put the pressure on the hitter. You know, I don't - the strikeouts, if they come in bunches, that's great. But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys. If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit. But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play."
"I feel very fortunate and very blessed. I've been doing it for thirteen years and I can't believe I had twenty (strikeouts) again. I knew I had a lot, but this is incredible."
"If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family."
"If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find."
"It (the three-hundred win plateau) will be more exciting when it gets closer, when I get this problem (soreness) over with. I'll be ready to lock and load."
"It's never in the past. This town (Boston), this ballpark (Fenway Park), are a part of me. I worked here. I gave my all here. That's the bottom line. That will never change."
"I was pitching (in the World Series) on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate."
"I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed."
"My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days)."
"This (starting on Opening Day) doesn't have anything to do with age or experience. Nobody just gives you this, you have to earn it."
"When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball."
"Wow. I think my first (postseason experience) one was — it was quite exciting. I was fairly relaxed. I mean, I had a lot of family around at the time, looking back. But, you know, only thing I remember about it is it just went extremely fast. When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast. That's why I made a point to tell and talk about the other day that having come out of Game 4 against Atlanta, here in the World Series, I wanted to get dressed and back on the bench as quickly as I could so I could absorb some of the sights and sounds, see Mo coming in and realize this was going to happen, finally."
"You have a lot of guys in that clubhouse, again, counting on you to do well. They look forward for you to do that, regardless of age, regardless of experience, regardless of, you know, what other intangibles you bring. They expect you to go out there and do well, and I expect the same from those guys."
Roger Clemens has a phenomenal work ethic, obsessive drive, and profound focus.
Physical Characteristics: Roger Clemens is 6 ft 4 inches (193cm) tall and weighs 205lb (92kg).
Quotes from others about the person
Joe Torre: "Every time Roger (Clemens) pitches it's exciting, whether it's 289 or 299. It's exciting because we're watching a guy that's going into the Hall of Fame."
Bill Haselman: "His ball tonight (20k game on September 18, 1996) was unbelievable. His two-seamers seemed like they were moving a foot. His splits were moving the same way. He was truly un-hittable."
Bob Klapisch: "If there's one iron-law in the Yankee clubhouse, it's that you won't find Roger Clemens at his locker days between starts. He's not signing autographs, he's not making TV appearances and he's certainly not in the players' lounge eating pizza. Instead, the Rocket is in the weight room, consumed by a four-day ritual that he's convinced has kept his elite-caliber fastball in the mid to upper 90's, and has actually prolonged his career."
Derek Jeter: "Roger (Clemens) is in another world when he's pitching. He's there, but he's not there."
Andy Pettitte: "Roger's (Clemens) in such great shape, I have no doubt he could keep pitching for four, five more years if he wanted to."
Mark Lemke: "What really catches your eye is how small he (Pedro Martinez) is. You go up against Roger Clemens, even if you've never seen him before, and you say, 'This guy looks overpowering.' You wouldn't say that about Pedro Martinez."
On November 24, 1984, Roger Clemens married Debra Lynn Godfrey. The couple has four sons - Koby Aaron, Kory Allen, Kacy Austin, and Kody Alec.