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At six feet, four inches and more than 220 pounds, Roger Clemens was literally a large figure in baseball for a quarter century. The best pitcher of his generation, his 4,672 strikeouts rank third all-time. He dominates modern statistical analysis: all-time first in base-out runs saved, situational wins saved, win probability added and base-out wins saved. Not even drafted out of high school, Clemens was almost miraculously discovered to have a fastball that was more than 15 miles an hour faster than what he was then throwing while in junior college. Given a scholarship to the University of Texas, Clemens led the Longhorns to the 1983 College World Series Baseball Championship. He was drafted in the first round by the Boston Red Sox in 1983 and in 1986 became the first pitcher in baseball history to strike out 20 batters in a nine inning game, a feat he matched in his final season in Boston in 1996. The next year Clemens returned to his dominant position as the best pitcher in the Amer