Roger Clemens might not be unhittable, after all.
The former iconic baseball pitcher, whose sordid affiliation with the sport's steroids scandal has all but trumped what would've been a Hall of Fame career, still faces legal issues.
A defamation lawsuit filed more than four years ago against the former baseball player in federal court, could keep allegations of his steroid use and unfaithfulness to his wife alive, The Associated Press reports.
Judge Cheryl Pollak, the judge in the civil case suit brought by Clemens' former trainer, ordered Clemens' lawyers to turn in government documents to his accuser. Those documents include 22 reports from the FBI, as well as notes from an agent with the Internal Revenue Service that include information on Clemens' alleged affairs.
Brian McNamee's 2009 suit alleges that Clemens publicly tried to discredit and humiliate McNamee, after the trainer told federal investigators and Congress that he frequently injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormones from 1998-2001.
The AP story added that the suit quoted Clemens saying in a 2007 YouTube video that McNamee "did not inject steroids into my body either when I played in Toronto for the Blue Jays or the New York Yankees."
The report also referred to a quote Clemens made to ESPN when the subject of McNamee was brought up: "Somebody out there that is really crawling up your back to make a buck."
In July of 2012, Clemens was found not guilty of lying to Congress in a federal perjury trial.
McNamee's attorney, Richard Emery, was quoted as saying that Pollak's order "gives us the essential fruits of the government investigation" in a civil case which doesn't have as stringent rules in showing proof that criminal cases require.
"All we have to prove is that Clemens more probably than not lied and that McNamee didn't," Emery said.
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