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The important result, however, was that Juet and Francis Clemens, the deposed boatswain, became Hudson's sworn enemies.
Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.
It was strongly felt in San Francisco, causing major damage, and experienced by Samuel Clemens ( Mark Twain ).
Titus Flavius Clemens ( c. 150 – c. 215 ), known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
Strict control was also maintained over the young Caesar's entourage, promoting away Flavian generals such as Arrius Varus and Antonius Primus and replacing them by more reliable men such as Arrecinus Clemens.
When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.
" Only when the driver told Clemens to look up and he saw the light towers did he realize he was in the right place.
Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham point out, in " Introduction to Manuscript Studies ", that “ the quire was the scribe ’ s basic writing unit throughout the Middle Ages ”.
Sports Illustrateds Joe Posnanski wrote, " There has never been a pitcher in baseball history — not Walter Johnson, not Lefty Grove, not Sandy Koufax, not Tom Seaver, not Roger Clemens — who was more overwhelming than the young Pedro.
Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in major league history, tallying 354 wins, a 3. 12 earned run average ( ERA ), and 4, 672 strikeouts, the third-most all time.
Clemens was known for his fierce competitive nature and for his hard-throwing pitching style that he used to intimidate batters.
Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.
Clemens was alleged by the Mitchell Report to have used anabolic steroids during his late career, mainly based on testimony given by his former trainer Brian McNamee.
Clemens was found not guilty on all six counts of lying to Congress in 2008, when he testified that he never took performance-enhancing drugs.
Booher died when Clemens was only nine years old, and Clemens has said that the only time he ever felt envious of other players is when he saw them in the clubhouse with their fathers.
In 2004, the Rotary Smith Award, given to America's best college baseball player, was changed to the Roger Clemens Award, honoring the best pitcher.
Clemens was drafted 19th overall by the Boston Red Sox in 1983 and quickly rose through the minor league system, making his major league debut on May 15,.
" Clemens was the only starting pitcher since Vida Blue in to win a league MVP award until Justin Verlander won the award in.
Since his longtime uniform number # 21 was in use by teammate Paul O ' Neill, Clemens initially wore # 12, before switching mid-season to # 22.
A seventh inning lead-off double by Seattle's Al Martin was all that prevented Clemens from throwing just the second no-hitter in postseason history ( Yankee Don Larsen threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series ).
( This spectacle was repeated when the Yankees ended up playing the Red Sox in the 2003 ALCS and Clemens got a second " final start " in his original stadium.
) As part of a tradition of manager Joe Torre, Clemens was chosen to manage the Yankees ' last game of the regular season.

Clemens and traded
The Astros renewed the contract with Clemens and traded two minor league prospects to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for left-handed hitter Aubrey Huff.
The company was founded by brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer in 1841 as a Dutch textile company, taking its company name from their initials, who were originally from the German Brenninkmeyer family that traded in linen and textiles since the 17th Century from their hometown in Mettingen, Germany.
After the 1998 season, Bush was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, along with pitchers Graeme Lloyd and David Wells, for pitcher Roger Clemens.
This effectiveness led to the Toronto Blue Jays demanding that Lloyd be included in a package anchored by starting pitcher David Wells when the Yankees traded for Toronto starting pitcher Roger Clemens.

Clemens and New
Roger Clemens, who had retired after the season with the New York Yankees, agreed to join former teammate Pettitte on the Astros for 2004.
The New York Mets selected Clemens in the 12th round of the 1981 draft, but he did not sign.
On June 21, with a single in the 5th inning against the Colorado Rockies, Clemens became the oldest New York Yankee to record a hit ( 44 years, 321 days ).
After surrendering the New York Yankees ' only loss in the 1999 playoffs in a much-hyped contest with Red Sox ace Pedro Martínez, Clemens began improving his postseason numbers.
His 3 – 0 record in the World Series includes a performance with New York down 2 – 0 in the 2001 series ; then, in Game 7, it was Clemens who matched Curt Schilling ; his start ( 6 innings, 1 run, 10 strikeouts ) was forgotten in the wake of the Diamondbacks ' famous ninth-inning comeback.
In April 2008, the New York Daily News reported on a possible long-term relationship between Clemens and country music singer Mindy McCready that began when she was 15 years old.
On April 29, 2008 the New York Post reported that Clemens had relationships with at least two other women.
On May 12, Clemens broke a long silence to denounce an heavily-researched expose by four investigative reporters from the New York Daily News, called American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime Clemens went on ESPN's Mike and Mike show to call the book " garbage ", but a review by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called the book " gripping " and compared it to the work of Bob Woodward.
* Phillips, H. A., " Brentano, Clemens Maria " Cassell's Encyclopedia of World Literature New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953.
American League: Roger Clemens, New York.
Other pitchers who have won multiple Triple Crowns include Christy Mathewson ( 1905 and 1908 New York Giants ), Lefty Grove ( 1930 and 1931 Philadelphia Athletics ), Lefty Gomez ( 1934 and 1937 New York Yankees ), and Roger Clemens ( 1997 – 1998 Toronto Blue Jays ).
He had a high reputation as a Grecian, a Latinist and a philologist, and he brought out with the collaboration of others his an edition of St Cyprian in 1682, an English translation of The Unity of the Church in 1681, editions of Nemesius of Emesa ( 1671 ), of Aratus and of Eratosthenes ( 1672 ), Theocritus ( 1676 ), Alcinous on Plato ( 1677 ), St Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians ( 1677 ), Athenagoras ( 1682 ), Clemens Alexandrinus ( 1683 ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 1684 ), Grammatica rationis sive institutiones logicae ( 1673 and 1685 ), and a critical edition of the New Testament in 1675.
* June 13 – New York Yankee Roger Clemens becomes the 21st pitcher in history to win 300 games and only the 3rd pitcher to record 4, 000 career strikeouts as he defeats the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2.
Chesbro won 14 straight games from May 14 through July 4, a New York franchise record that stood until Roger Clemens broke it in 2001.
But, during the Week 15 game against the New England Patriots, Kellen Clemens left the game after the second play with a rib injury and Pennington returned to the game.
Searfoss was born on June 5, 1956, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, but considers Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to be his hometown.
In 1877 Professor Philip Schaff ( 1819 – 93 ) was asked by Dr. Herzog himself to undertake an English reproduction of the second edition of his encyclopedia, and this work was fairly begun when, in the autumn of 1880, Clemens Petersen and Samuel Macauley Jackson were engaged to work daily on it in Dr. Schaff ’ s study in the Bible House, New York City.

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