The Rocket That Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality
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A fearless, hard-nosed Texan with a 98-mph fastball and a propensity to throw at the heads of opposing hitters, Roger "the Rocket" Clemens won 354 games, an unprecedented seven Cy Young Awards, and two World Series trophies over the course of twenty-four seasons. But the statistics and hoopla obscured a far darker story-one of playoff chokes, womanizing (including a long-term affair with a teenage country singer), violent explosions, steroid and human growth hormone use...and an especially dark secret that Clemens spent a lifetime trying to hide: a family tragedy involving drugs and, ultimately, death.In The Rocket That Fell to Earth, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs the pitcher's life-from his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium-to reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before he crashed down to earth. Boston Globe “Pearlman’s book develops a stark, unsparing picture of Clemens’s life that surpasses anything that’s come before.”
1 High Heat 12 Fat Boy from Ohio 63 Houston Bound 204 College 325 A Legendary Longhorn 436 Going Pro 607 Rah-jah in Beantown 738 The Can 839 Dominance 9210 A Legend in Bloom 11611 Baggage 13112 Unraveling 14113 The Ladies' Man 16114 The Devil and Dan Duquette 16715 War 17816 Twilight 18817 Under the Influence 20218 A (Not So) Yankee Doodle Dandy 21419 Happiness 22620 Subway Crash 23621 Greatness by Any Means Necessary 24722 Ignorance and Bliss 26223 Retirement 27524 Bess 28625 Credibility Lost 29626 Dead Pitcher Walking 303Epilogue 316Acknowledgments 321Notes 325Bibliography 347
