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- NAME: Roger Clemens
- OCCUPATION: Baseball Player
- BIRTH DATE: August 04, 1962 (Age: 50)
- EDUCATION: San Jacinto Junior Community College, University of Texas, Spring Woods High School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Dayton, Ohio
- Full Name: William Roger Clemens
- Nickname: Rocket
- Full Name: Roger Clemens
- ZODIAC SIGN: Leo
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Former Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens, of the Red Sox, won 7 Cy Young Awards and recorded 4,672 strikeouts. He was indicted for perjury in 2010.
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Clemens, coming out of a five-year retirement, was slated to pitch for the independent Atlantic League's Sugar Land Skeeters team later that month—leading media outlets to speculate that the famed player would make a comeback with the Houston Astros, returning for the 2013 season.
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