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American Icon Co-Author Nate Vinton '01 on Roger Clemens Indictment

Story posted August 20, 2010

Former Major League Baseball star Roger Clemens was indicted Thursday on perjury charges related to his 2008 Congressional testimony about his use of performance enhancing drugs.

In the wake of that announcement, the Bowdoin Daily Sun features an interview with investigative reporter Nate Vinton '01, co-author of the headline-making book, American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), about the indictment and what's next for the pitcher known as "Rocket."

Read the Bowdoin Daily Sun article.

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