I’m a baseball
player – Roger Clemens
(formerly played for the Houston Astros)
(formerly played for the Houston Astros)
I’m a baseball player
And I didn’t cheatI never took steroids
Though I’m hard to beat
After two lengthy trials
The jury has said
That I wasn’t guilty
That’s how I had pled
They said I bulked up
While playing my sport
But not from steroids
My lawyer said in court
After two separate trials
Much money was spent
For my attorney
And the government
Performance enhancing
Some athletes may use
But why this crusade
Did our Congress choose
By, Randee Saber 6/23/2012
William Roger
Clemens (born August
4, 1962), nicknamed "The Rocket", is an American former Major League Baseball starting
pitcher who played 23
seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four teams, including the Houston Astros. Clemens was one of the
most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3.12 earned run average (ERA), and 4,672 strikeouts, the
third-most all time. An 11-time All-Star and two-time World
Series champion, he
won seven Cy
Young Awards during his
career, the most of any pitcher in MLB history. Clemens was known for his
fierce competitive nature and for his hard-throwing pitching style that he used
to intimidate batters.
Clemens was found not guilty on June 18, 2012 for the charges of suspicion of lying to Congress on August 19, 2010 when he testified that he never took performance enhancing durgs.
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