Debbie Clemens

Roger Clemens’ wife, and the mother of his four children.
Career Stats: Four kids, all named with the letter K.

Breakdown: Roger’s wife, who attended Spring Woods High but was a year younger than her husband. As Roger spent his life traveling from city to city, earning large doses of money and adulation, engaging in myriad affairs, Debbie was home … living.

From The Rocket That Fell to Earth: In January 1984, while home in Houston, Roger ran into an old Spring Woods High classmate named Debbie Godfrey. Perky yet tough, with wavy light brown hair and an athletic physique, Debbie was a ballet, jazz and tap dance instructor who— like Roger— had been raised in the lower­ middle­ class environs of suburban Houston. Her family lived in the rundown Victorian Village apartment com­plex across the street from the high school, though Debbie’s optimistic confidence concealed any despondency. “We have a lot in common,” Debbie once said. “We both grew up knowing hard times. My mother was divorced. We didn’t have much.”

Although Roger and Debbie were friendly in high school, it had been primarily a “Hi!”­ and­ “Bye!” relationship as they passed each other in the hallway.