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Hardy Vision: 'Rocket' book brings heat on Clemens' delivery
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[SIZE=-1]The Rocket That Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality (Harper, $26.99) is the new biography by former Sports Illustrated senior writer Jeff Pearlman. Although the title promises an autopsy on how one of the game's most dominating pitchers forfeited his right to legendary status, in many ways it's more about the rise. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"This is not a steroid book," Pearlman said in a phone interview. "If you want to buy a steroid book, Game of Shadows is a better book than this for steroids. It delves into it because it has to, and it's a big part of his life. My goal here was to find out what makes Roger Clemens Roger Clemens. How he reached this point, what kind of decisions, his upbringing, the people who surrounded him. I wasn't trying to write Game of Shadows 2." [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]GH: Can we think of the Rocket as the reverse-Forest Gump of recent baseball? Instead of being the insignificant person who floated through historic events, he was a prime player for the '80s Boston Red Sox, he started Game 6 against the Mets, helped Joe Torre's Yankees dynasty, was pals with Jose Canseco, etc. How was it that he got to be in these places? [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]JP: Well, he happened to be great. That doesn't hurt. You've got to be in key games and key matchups if you're that good of a pitcher. Yeah, I get your Forest Gump comparison. Like, Forest Gump brought nothing upon himself. Everything just fell upon him. He happened to pick up a Ping-Pong paddle, he was able to play Ping-Pong. He started running one day, and he ran across the country. Clemens kind of brought it upon himself. His career was fading, he decided to turn to performance-enhancers. He got resentful in Boston of (general manager) Dan Duquette so he decided to sign with Toronto. The fact of the matter is when you're marquee -- and he was a marquee as you got for a while -- whatever you do blows up a hundred times over. So you're right, Forest Gump was all accidental; Roger's career was all sort of intentional and by design. ...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]CBSSports.com[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Rocket That Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality (Harper, $26.99) is the new biography by former Sports Illustrated senior writer Jeff Pearlman. Although the title promises an autopsy on how one of the game's most dominating pitchers forfeited his right to legendary status, in many ways it's more about the rise. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"This is not a steroid book," Pearlman said in a phone interview. "If you want to buy a steroid book, Game of Shadows is a better book than this for steroids. It delves into it because it has to, and it's a big part of his life. My goal here was to find out what makes Roger Clemens Roger Clemens. How he reached this point, what kind of decisions, his upbringing, the people who surrounded him. I wasn't trying to write Game of Shadows 2." [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]GH: Can we think of the Rocket as the reverse-Forest Gump of recent baseball? Instead of being the insignificant person who floated through historic events, he was a prime player for the '80s Boston Red Sox, he started Game 6 against the Mets, helped Joe Torre's Yankees dynasty, was pals with Jose Canseco, etc. How was it that he got to be in these places? [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]JP: Well, he happened to be great. That doesn't hurt. You've got to be in key games and key matchups if you're that good of a pitcher. Yeah, I get your Forest Gump comparison. Like, Forest Gump brought nothing upon himself. Everything just fell upon him. He happened to pick up a Ping-Pong paddle, he was able to play Ping-Pong. He started running one day, and he ran across the country. Clemens kind of brought it upon himself. His career was fading, he decided to turn to performance-enhancers. He got resentful in Boston of (general manager) Dan Duquette so he decided to sign with Toronto. The fact of the matter is when you're marquee -- and he was a marquee as you got for a while -- whatever you do blows up a hundred times over. So you're right, Forest Gump was all accidental; Roger's career was all sort of intentional and by design. ...[/SIZE]
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