Jeff Pearlman

The Rocket That Fell to Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pearlman's book develops a stark, unsparing picture of Clemens's life that surpasses anything that's come before. Boston Globe

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs pitcher Roger Clemens's lifefrom his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadiumto reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before he crashed down to earth.

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 storyone 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061886720
• Artikelnr.: 37991212

Autorenporträt

JEFF PEARLMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of ten books. His subjects include the '80s Los Angeles Lakers (Showtime), the 1986 New York Mets (The Bad Guys Won), the '90s Dallas Cowboys (Boys Will Be Boys), and NFL legends Walter Payton (Sweetness) and Brett Favre (Gunslinger). HBO adapted Showtime into the dramatic series Winning Time, produced and directed by Adam McKay. A former Sports Illustrated senior writer and ESPN.com columnist, Pearlman is the host of the Two Writers Slinging Yang podcast and blogs regularly at jeffpearlman.com.