For Alex Rodriguez, the road to 3,000 hits just might have featured the most passengers of any such journey.
For among the many categories in which A-Rod ranks among the league leaders? Friends. And enemies. And frenemies. And friends-turned-enemies-turned-friends again.
One of the most important members of that last group appeared alongside A-Rod last Tuesday, at the place where Rodriguez learned how to play the game that made him America’s most beloved supervillain.
“I’ve always said this: It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish,” Eddie Rodriguez told The Post at the Hank Kline Club in Miami.