Editing Roger Clemens (section)

==Awards and recognition==
In 1999, while many of his performances and milestones were yet to come he ranked number 53 on ''[[The Sporting News]]''{{'}} list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was elected by the fans to the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]].<ref name="y963">{{cite web  | title=100 Greatest Baseball Players by The Sporting News: A Legendary List by Baseball Almanac | website=Baseball Almanac | url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lisn100.shtml | access-date=2024-09-16}}</ref> In 2005, the updated ''Sporting News'' list moved Clemens up to #15.

By the end of the 2005 season, Clemens had won seven Cy Young Awards (he won the AL award in 1986, 1987, 1991, 1997, 1998, and 2001, and the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] award in 2004), an MVP and two pitching triple crowns. With his 2004 win, he joined [[Gaylord Perry]], [[Randy Johnson]], and [[Pedro Martínez]] as the only pitchers to win it in both leagues and became the oldest [[pitcher]] to ever win the [[Cy Young]]. He has also won the [[Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award]] five times, was named an [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] 11 times, and won the All-Star MVP in 1986. Clemens is the only pitcher in history to win a Cy Young Award with four different teams.

In October 2006, Clemens was named to ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''{{'}}s "all-time" team.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sports Illustrated's All-Time Team, 10/2006 |url=http://www.baseballist.com/lists/sialltimeteam06.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009145532/http://www.baseballist.com/lists/sialltimeteam06.php |archive-date=October 9, 2007 |access-date=June 7, 2007 |website=Baseball List}}</ref>

On August 18, 2007, Clemens got his 1,000th strikeout as a [[New York Yankees|Yankee]]. He is only the ninth player in major league history to record 1,000 or more strikeouts with two different teams. Clemens has recorded a total of 2,590 strikeouts as a member of the Red Sox and 1,014 strikeouts as a Yankee. He also had 563 strikeouts for Toronto, and 505 strikeouts for Houston.

Clemens was inducted into the [[Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame]] in 2014,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mlb.com/redsox/history/red-sox-hall-of-fame |title=Red Sox Hall of Fame |work=[[MLB.com]] |access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref> and was inducted into the [[Pawtucket Red Sox]] Hall of Fame on June 21, 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 21, 2019 |title=Roger Clemens inducted into PawSox Hall of Fame |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/06/21/roger-clemens-inducted-into-pawsox-hall-of-fame/39612523/ |access-date=June 21, 2019 |work=[[USA Today]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>