Clemens Asks Vincent to Read His Lips
Boston Red Sox right-hander Roger Clemens brought a lip-reader as he appealed his five-game suspension before Commissioner Fay Vincent Friday.
Deborah Copeland, a deaf woman who works with the New York Society for the Deaf and is director of the program for deaf students at Lehman College, testified about what Clemens said to umpire Terry Cooney during the second inning of Game 4 of last year’s American League playoffs.
“She provided interesting and I think useful testimony,” Vincent said.
Bobby Brown, president of the AL, suspended Clemens and fined him $10,000 Nov. 20. Clemens appealed and Brown upheld his original decision April 2, saying that the penalties were issued because Clemens shoved umpire Jim Evans in order to get closer to Cooney during the argument that followed the ejection.
Clemens then appealed to Vincent, preventing the penalties from being enforced pending a decision by the commissioner.
Vincent said he hopes to render a decision next week.
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