Red Sox teammates know Roger Clemens to be a fierce competitor on the field. He has always been bullish when it comes to his drive in playing baseball. This personality had already existed even during his Little League days. And this would be written in a book authored by Jeff Pearlman, a biographer and writer for Sports Illustrated. Many believe that because he was too driven and bloodthirsty to win every game it had led to his downfall.
Pearlman has prepared to write a comprehensive, tell-all biography of Clemens by making 400 interviews to add meat to his research. He doesn’t have plans to mince words in describing what Clemens had done to his career and that he has become an embarrassment to his hometown.
From The Boston Globe:
This is one comprehensive book, and those most familiar with the many controversies and accomplishments of Clemens’s career - his first 20-strikeout game for the Red Sox, the question of whether he asked out of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, his early ejection in Game 4 of the 1990 ALCS, and the incident where he threw a broken bat shard at the Mets’ Mike Piazza (and then excused his act by saying he thought it was a baseball) - will find new and illuminating material.
There is tragedy on a personal level. The author says Randy Clemens seems to have descended into self-destructive drug abuse, ruining his life and that of his family. Roger’s alleged affair with 17-year-old country music singer Mindy McCready puts the lie to his pose of family rectitude. And yet Pearlman finds in Clemens someone perhaps so driven by a compulsion to triumph that he may fail to grasp when he’s crossed the line, in this and other matters.
Clemens may have meant well by his dogged aggressiveness and some can attest that the man had a good side despite his ruined reputation. He frequented a children’s clinic where he would pay the sick kids a visit. But for some its not the good things that remain but those which had tainted his name.
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