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Clemens’ shoulders and allowed him to focus on his game. Getting lost in the competitive energy of a high-level baseball game, it became addicting once more.

Inning 6: Turning a corner Clemens pitched four games in e week after, Clemens started again and recorded a second win.

2019 before the league was shut down due to the COVID-19 for two seasons. He returned in 2021 to pitch one game and pitched two games earlier this year before the Drakes’ season ended.

Last month, at age 55, Clemens became the oldest player in Pecos League history to record a win on the mound.In seven innings, Clemens scattered 12 hits and gave up only 4 runs in the victory.

Inning 7: A full-circle journey

At that moment, Clemens’ baseball journey had come full circle. No, he would never know if he truly was good enough to be a pro in his heyday. No, he’ll never stop asking himself “What if?”

But in a small way, it was enough of an answer to bring back his joy and rediscover his true love of the game.

“When you’re out there playing, there’s a little bit of a di erent look in people’s eyes when they’re like, ‘You’re with us and we hope you do well’ versus ‘You’re one of us, and we’ve got your back,’” Clemens said. “I feel I had labored for 30 years and loved the game, and this was one small way it showed me it loved me back.”

Inning 8: Sharing the love of the game

As Clemens began to tell his story to friends and family, he was met with several di erent comments like “Wow! at should be a movie!” or “Wow! You should write a book.”

He was hesitant at rst, but after some thinking, he set out to do just that. He and his sister began speaking about possibilities, as she had worked on movie scripts in the past. Together, they wrote a movie script entitled “ e Dude is Legit,” following his story from beginning to end. He believes it could be the next great baseball movie, adding there hasn’t been one since “Moneyball” was released in 2011.

“A lot of the really good sports movies you think of, like ‘Hoosiers’ and ‘Rudy,’ and some of those, they’re not so much about the sports action,” Clemens said. “ ey’re really more about, what does the sport tell us about being human? How we can learn, grow, develop and understand ourselves a little bit better.”

Inning 9: A movie script ending e plot tackles nostalgic baseball tropes like the ever-present “base-

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You don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy the lm, either, he said. “I think people who are not baseball fans are going to get a lot out of it, too,” Clemens said. “ ey’ll see themselves in it in terms of their passions, their dreams, their lost aspirations. I’m 55 now, and it’s really easy to let age get in the way and be an excuse for not doing things. I think it’s a reminder that that’s really just a number in our head. We have amazing opportunities in the world around us to do things longer.”

It all comes back to the high school mound in Douglas County for Clemens.

It’s where he originally found the con dence to excel on the eld, and he never lost that condence. He just misplaced it after he was injured in college. It took him 30 years to rediscover it, and he wouldn’t trade the journey for anything.

It taught him many lessons, including that not even the passage of decades of time could stop him from achieving his dreams. For more information about his upcoming lm, check out www. legitdude lm.com

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