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Article: The Rocket's red glare. (Toronto Blue Jays' pitcher Roger Clemens)
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- Newsweek
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- July 7, 1997
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For Clemens, pitching well is the best revenge
THE GLOWER, THE GOATEE AND THE gas on the 97-mile-per-hour fast ball are all the same. Yet Roger Clemens is not easily recognizable on the mound of Toronto's SkyDome, having traded in his red sox for Blue Jays royal blue. Once baseball's dominant pitcher with the Red Sox, Roger "the Rocket" had appeared, in recent years, badly in need of a booster. So when his contract expired last fall, Boston bid adieu to its former ace. The Blue Jays bid him up--$31.5 million for four years--making Clemens, at 34, the highest-paid pitcher in the game. Toronto's reward has been a familiar sight: Clemens once again atop the American ...