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...Roger Clemens. We started down that dark road the same year. It was '98. Clemens was in the middle of an awesome Cy Young season in Toronto: 20-6 with a 2.65 ERA. I'd been at TIME for two years, having been traded by Fortune for a features writer and an editor to be named later. I got off like a house afire - cover stories, features, business news, plane crashes, you name it. But in middle of the '99 season the managing editor pulled me aside for a little talk. I knew what was coming. "Your story starts...
...they get Clemens? The Mitchell investigators interviewed his trainer, Brian McNamee, who told them that he injected Clemens in the buttocks with steroids four times over a several week period in 1998, when Clemens was playing for the Toronto Blue Jays. (He won the Cy Young award that year). Also, according to McNamee, he injected Clemens during the 2000 and 2001 seasons, when he played for the Yankees and won another Cy Young...
...Cobb. People didn't like Cobb for various reasons. He's sort of notorious. But 80 years later, notorious is cool. His memorabilia is going up. Walter Johnson was the greatest pitcher of his day, but what do we know about him? What do we know about Cy Young except for the trophy? What do we know about Eddie Collins? They were nice guys - and it's too hard to write books about nice guys. Fifty years from now, Bonds is going to be the cool badass dude. The future generations are going to say: Why does Grandpa...
CURT SCHILLING, Boston Red Sox pitcher, about Roger Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner who will leave retirement to pitch (for $4.5 million a month) for the New York Yankees. Boston had also courted Clemens...
...Well, which is it? Black Americans are far more underrepresented among people who win the science Nobel Prizes, but that's rarely treated as a national crisis. Winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine would do more for the group's image than winning the MVP or a Cy Young Award, which black Americans have already proved they...