"Roger Clemens has put himself in a position where his legacy as the greatest pitcher in baseball will depend less on his ERA and more on his DNA," said one of McNamee's lawyers, Earl Ward.
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner's denials of McNamee's allegations in the Mitchell Report about drug use drew Congress' attention. The committee has scheduled a public hearing for Wednesday, when Clemens, McNamee and other witnesses, including New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte, are to testify.
McNamee's attorneys said their client turned over physical evidence to a federal prosecutor for the Northern District of California last month, shortly after Clemens held a Jan. 7 nationally televised news conference at which he played a taped conversation between the two men with conflicting accounts at the center of the issue.
"At that point," Ward said, "(McNamee) decided there was no holds barred."
One photo shows a crushed beer can -- which Richard Emery, another of McNamee's attorneys, said was taken out of a trash can in Clemens' New York apartment in late 2001 -- that contained needles used to inject Clemens. That picture also shows what Emery said was gauze used to wipe blood off Clemens after a shot.
The other picture shows vials of what Emery said were testosterone, and needles -- items the attorney said Clemens gave to McNamee for safekeeping at the end of the 2002 baseball season. McNamee's attorneys did not know when the items would be tested -- or when the results might be known.
"We look forward to the results of these tests," Emery said, "and we look forward to just definitively finishing this whole controversy and ending this circus."
About an hour later, and a short walk away, Clemens held a news conference at which one of his attorneys, Rusty Hardin, repeatedly attacked McNamee, calling him a "troubled, not-well man."
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