Roger Clemens

The Rocket works out sometimes for five hours a day when he doesn't pitches.
. Roger Clemens is famous for his extraordinary dedication to keeping himself in the best physical condition he possibly can.
. During the 2005 season, Roger Clemens is the 6th highest paid player in Major League Baseball at $18,000,022.00. 523. His son Koby, 18, was drafted by the Astros as a catcher on July 14, 2005. Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, p.

They have 4 sons: Koby Clemens, Kory, Kacy, and Kody ("K" is a baseball scorer's notation for "strikeout"). Note 1: . Clemens married Debra Godfrey on November 24, 1984. Ben Gurion retired from politics in 1970 and spent his last years on his kibbutz. Clemens was fined $50,000. In 1968, when Rafi merged with Mapai to form the Labour Alignment, Ben Gurion refused to reconcile with his old party and formed another new party, The State List, which won four seats in the 1969 election. (Ironically, he was only one of two major leaguers who refused to cross the picket line when the umpires later went on strike.) In the 1st inning of Game 2 of the 2000 World Series, Clemens threw a piece of a shattered bat out of his way and, as New York Mets' Mike Piazza claimed, directly at Piazza, clearing both benches. A rivalry developed between the two, however, and Ben Gurion broke with the party in June 1965 over Eshkol's handling of the Lavon affair and formed a new party, Rafi which won ten seats in the Knesset.

Clemens was suspended for the first 5 games of the 1991 season and fined $10,000. He stepped down as Prime Minister in 1963, in large part due to differences with his government over the Lavon Affair, and was succeeded by Levi Eshkol. On October 10, 1990 he was ejected in the 2nd inning of an ALCS game for cursing at home plate umpire Terry Cooney. Ben-Gurion was among the founders of Mapai which governed Israel during the first three decades of its existence. His storied temper has gotten him into hot water more than once. Intervention by the United States and the United Nations forced the British, French and Israelis to back down. He has 169 SOs, and a MLB-best 1.57 ERA. Returning to government, Ben Gurion collaborated with the British and French to plan the 1956 Sinai War in which Israel stormed the Sinai peninsula in retaliation for raids by Egypt thus giving British and French forces a pretext to intervene in order to secure the Suez Canal after Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser had announced its nationalization.

During that time they were shut out eight times. He returned to office in 1955 assuming the post of Defence Minister and later prime-minister. Through September 4, Clemens has an 11-6 record despite ranking 95th in run support, with the Astros scoring 3.57 runs on average in games in which was the pitcher of record. In 1953 Ben-Gurion announced his intention to withdraw from government and settle in the Kibbutz Sde-Boker, in the Israeli Negev. Currently, Clemens is in the midst of having the finest season of his career, and could post baseball's lowest single-season ERA since Bob Gibson in 1968. In particular, he called for pioneering settlement in outlying areas, especially in the Negev. Only left-hander Warren Spahn is ahead of Clemens in wins among live-ball pitchers. He presided over various national projects aimed at the rapid development of the country and its population: Operation Magic Carpet, the airlift of Jews from Arab countries, the construction of the National Water Carrier, rural development projects and the establishment of new towns and cities.

On May 9, he finally got his second win of the season against the Florida Marlins, giving him 330 for his career. As Premier, he oversaw the establishment of the state's institutions. However, it took him a month to surpass Carlton, as he was victimized by horrendous run support in a string of five starts that produced one loss and four no-decisions. Ben Gurion led Israel during its War of Independence and, except for nearly two years of interruption between 1953 - 1955, became Prime Minister on January 25, 1948 and served until 1963. On April 8, 2005, Clemens won his first start of the season against the Cincinnati Reds, which tied him with Steve Carlton for second in wins for live-ball pitchers. That command remains controversial to this day. He has more career wins than any other right-handed pitcher of the live-ball era. To that end, Ben-Gurion gave the order to open fire upon and sink a ship named Altalena, which carried ammunition for the Irgun (also called Etzel) resistance group.

The deal gave Clemens the highest yearly salary earned by a pitcher in MLB history. However, when the risks of mass killing became apparent, Ben-Gurion told Begin to call the operation off; Begin refused.¹ During the first weeks of Israel's independence, it was decided to disband all resistance groups and replace them with a single formal army. However, on January 21, 2005 both sides agreed on a one-year, $18m contract, thus avoiding arbitration. Ben-Gurion initially agreed to Begin's plan to carry out the King David Hotel bombing, with the intent of humiliating (rather than killing) the British military stationed there. The Astros submitted an offer of $13.5m and Clemens countered with a record $22m demand. He was also involved in occasional violent resistance during the short period of time his organization cooperated with Menachem Begin's Irgun, though he refused to be involved in terrorism of any kind, and insisted that violence only be used against military targets. Clemens again decided to put off retirement before the 2005 season after the Houston Astros offered salary arbitration. He was strongly opposed to the Revisionist Zionist movement led by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his successor Menachem Begin.

This also made him the fourth pitcher to win the award in both leagues, after Gaylord Perry, Pedro Martínez, and Randy Johnson. During the pre-statehood period in Palestine, Ben-Gurion represented the mainstream Jewish establishment and was known as a moderate, with whose Haganah organization the British dealt with frequently, sometimes in order to arrest more radical groups involved in resistance against them. He became the oldest player ever to win this award, at age 42. Both of these developments put pressure on the British to either grant the Jews a state in Palestine or quit the League of Nations Mandate - they did the latter in 1948 on the heels of a United Nations resolution partitioning the territory between Jews and Arabs. After the season, he won his seventh Cy Young Award, extending his record number of awards. He is also considered the architect of both the Federation of Jewish Labor, the Histadrut which created a Jewish state within the British state and the Haganah, the paramilitary force of the Labor Zionist movement that facilitated underground immigration, defended kibbutzim and other Jewish settlements against attack and provided the backbone of the future Israeli Defense Forces. Clemens had an 18-4 record in 2004, giving him a career record of 328-164. Ben-Gurion encouraged Jews to join the British military at the same time as he helped orchestrate the illegal immigration of thousands of European Jewish refugees to Palestine at a time when the British sought to bar new Jewish settlement.

On May 5, 2004, Clemens recorded his 4,137th career strikeout to place him second on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan, and finished the season with 4,317 strikeouts. In the Israeli declaration of independence, he stressed that the new nation would "uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex". He chose to put off his retirement, signing a one-year deal with his hometown Houston Astros on January 12, 2004, joining close friend and former Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte. An austere, ascetic idealist, he was marked by a commitment to the establishment of a Jewish state. His career record upon reaching the milestones was an impressive 300-155; his record at the end of the season was 310-160 with 4,099 strikeouts. Ben-Gurion was at the political forefront of the Labor Zionist movement during the fifteen years leading to the creation of the State of Israel when Labor Zionism had become the dominant tendency in the World Zionist Organization. He became the 21st pitcher ever to record 300 wins and just the third ever to record 4,000 strikeouts, joining Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Steve Carlton (4,136). The family returned to Palestine after World War I after it had been conquered by the British.

The 300th win came on his fourth try; the Yankee bullpen blew his chance of a win in his previous two attempts. They were married in 1917, and subsequently had three children. Louis Cardinals in Yankee Stadium, Clemens recorded his 300th career win and 4,000th career strikeout, the first player in history to record both milestones in the same game. Settling in New York City in 1915 he met the Russian-born Paula Munweis. On June 13, 2003, pitching against the St. He was expelled from Palestine, then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, in 1915 due to his political activities. Early in 2003, he announced his retirement, effective at the end of that season. He first worked as a journalist and adopted his Hebrew name Ben-Gurion as he began his political career.

He finished the season at 20-3 and added another Cy Young Award to his resume. Shocked by the pogroms and rampant anti-Semitism that plagued Jewish life in Eastern Europe, he became an ardent Zionist and socialist and moved to Palestine in 1906. In 2001, he became the first pitcher in history to start a year 20–1. He was born as David Gruen (pronounced "Green") in Płońsk, Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire. In 1999 and 2000, he won World Series titles with the Yankees. . Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees before the 1999 season for David Wells, Homer Bush, and Graeme Lloyd. David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973; Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן גּוּרִיּוֹן) was the first Prime Minister of Israel.

In his 2 seasons there, he won the Cy Young both years. According to Jewish educator, comics fan and writer Alan Oirich, artist Gil Kane based his design of the large-headed, balding Guardians of the Universe in DC’s Green Lantern on David Ben-Gurion.[2]. After Boston general manager Dan Duquette claimed Clemens was in the "twilight of his career" and opted not to re-sign him following the '96 season, Clemens signed with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was voted by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 people who shaped the 20th century [1]. Remarkably, Clemens accomplished the feat twice; on April 29, 1986 against the Seattle Mariners, and on September 18, 1996 against the Detroit Tigers, more than 10 years later. Randy Johnson also struck out 20 batters in the first 9 innings of a game, but since the game went into extra innings, Johnson was not awarded the record).

Clemens is one of only two pitchers to have thrown 20 strikeouts in a 9-inning major league game (Kerry Wood is the other. "I'd probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was." Clemens remains the only starting pitcher since Vida Blue in 1971 to win a league MVP award. "I wish he were still playing," Clemens responded. Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron angered the hurler by saying that pitchers should not be eligible for the MVP.

In 1986 his 24 wins helped guide the Sox to the World Series (which they lost) and earned Clemens the American League Most Valuable Player award for the regular season and the first of his seven Cy Young Awards (he also won the AL award in 1987, 1991, 1997, 1998 and 2001 and the National League award in 2004). He was drafted 19th overall by the Boston Red Sox, making his major league debut on May 15, 1984. He attended Spring Woods High School in Houston, and was on the mound when the University of Texas won the 1983 College World Series. Clemens spent most of his childhood in Texas.

He throws and bats right-handed. William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962 in Dayton, Ohio), nicknamed "The Rocket", is among the preeminent Major League baseball pitchers of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.