Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher: Jonathan Mayo,ROGER CLEMENS: Books

Baseball Prospectus found this 3/6/2008 on www.amazon.com [flag]

As the most feared pitcher of all time, Roger Clemens has won more than 350 games in his 20-year baseball career, struck out more than 4,500 batters (the second highest total in the history of the game), and earned a record seven Cy Young awards. Along the way, he’s hit 150 batters, knocked down hundreds more, and stared down every batter who tried to dig in against him. Facing Clemens ... [link]

Tags:

MLB

Jonathan Papelbon

Roger Clemens

Cy Young

Ken Griffey

Chipper Jones

Comments

Links (2)

Schrodinger`s Bat: Hitters v. Clemens by Dan Fox
Published 3/6/2008 at Baseball Prospectus
"No athlete goes through what Roger Clemens has put himself through in terms of conditioning and hard work not to win. Whatever your opinion of Clemens, there's never been any doubt about his competitive nature. --from the Introduction to Facing Clemens by Jonathan Mayo I'm sure Jonathan Mayo never anticipated that statements like these from his newly released book, Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher , would be read in such a different light just months after he penned them. Surely there is, even now, no question about The Rocket's ...

Facing Clemens
Published 3/7/2008 by Dan Agonistes at Dan Agonistes
... is an interview with the author of the new book Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher, Jonathan Mayo. Some readers I'm sure will recognize the name since Mayo is also a senior writer for MLB.com who typically writes about the minor leagues and can be found all over the place as the draft approaches. ...

Related Content

Jonathan Papelbon: We Need To Talk.

Texas Gal posted 3/5/2008 from www.outincenterfield.com

It's time we took a serious look at your latest whining/grandstanding about your paycheck. And this is coming from a place of love, but: you've got to stop.

Red Sox Scout Caught With Pants Down

Greg C. posted 3/5/2008 from slidingintohome.blogspot.com

From WPTV-TV : A scout for the Boston Red Sox accused of committing a lewd act in a hotel room that overlooked the pool where at least two teenage girls saw him was arrested Monday, police said Tuesday. Jesse Levis, 39, faces two felony counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts in the precense of children less than 16. This is not the first time something like this has happened to a ..

More Clemens Legal Drama!

Yankees Chick found this 3/5/2008 on sports.aol.com

Sick of the Roger Clemens vs Brian McNamee story? Too bad! It's not going anywhere. Ever. If you recall, Clemens slapped a defamation lawsuit on McNamee back in early February, which made its way to the federal court system shortly thereafter ...

McNamee's lawyers ask for Clemens' defamation suit to be tossed out - AOL Sports

Yankees Chick found this 3/5/2008 on sports.aol.com

NEW YORK (AP) - Former personal trainer Brian McNamee asked a court Tuesday to throw out Roger Clemens' defamation suit and to disqualify the star pitcher's lead attorney. Major League Baseball star Clemens claims he was defamed when McNamee, his ...

Vote for this guy

The Bronx Block found this 3/5/2008 on yankees.lhblogs.com

Saw this on the AP wire: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) said today that the FBI is too busy with more important crimes to spend time trying to determine if Roger Clemens lied to Congress about taking performance enhancing substances. “Roger ...

Sports Heroes
For my 20th article here at the Bleacher Report, I've decided to go down a list of my sports heroes. I've also decided to bring back my original name. Abner Period and Johnny Weeping Willow won't be back. I will do this as a ...

Colon impresses in bullpen session
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Red Sox reluctance to give Bartolo Colon rave reviews keeps getting tougher. The 2005 AL Cy Young award winner pitched his second impressive bullpen...

Congressman Anthony Weiner asks FBI to end Roger Clemens investigation
America has bigger problems than Roger Clemens and steroids, Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday. The New York Democrat called on the FBI to end its investigation into whether the Rocket lied to Congress.

Kieschnick leads Texas Tech to 8-3 win
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- Roger Kieschnick went 3-for-5 with five RBIs Wednesday to lead Texas Tech to ...

Should FBI end Roger Clemens investigation?
Congressman Anthony Weiner asks the FBI to end the Roger Clemens investigation. Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the seven-time Cy Young Award winner lied under ...