Forty-year-old Roger Clemens agreed to a $10.1 million, one-year deal with the Yankees on December 30, 2002. At the time, Clemens indicated that 2003 would be his final year in baseball, and the end of the 2003 season became a series of public farewells met with appreciative cheering. Clemens would come out of retirement almost as quickly as he went into it, however, signing with the Houston Astros in early 2004.
I think you mean he signed with the Astros in early 2004, not the Red Sox. Anyway, it’s such a disappointment to have the careers of players like Bonds and Clemens be so tainted by steroids or whatever they were using, disappointing because they were such a big part of my teenage years, all the excitement when they pitched, not to mention all the baseball cards.
Ooops! Good catch — corrected. And, yes. It’s such a shame, really; it feels like an entire generation’s perspective on the game is tainted because of all that.