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Despite his age, Roger Clemens remains a compelling figure in the majors.(Warm Up Tosses)(Cover Story)
IT WAS ONLY A LITTLE MORE THAN A YEAR AGO THAT ROGER CLEMENS SAT DOWN on a chair before his locker in the Yankee clubhouse at Legends Field in Tampa, Florida to chat with a visiting writer.
On that mid-March day during spring training, he was almost 41 years old and seven wins shy of 300 career victories.
The visiting writer asked Clemens how much longer he wanted to punish himself in order to continue as one of the game's most dominant and compelling power pitchers.
"The desire to win, that never changes no matter how old you are," Clemens said. "Reaching 300 wins, that'll be great, but I want to get there with a high winning percentage."
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