Earlier this week, I was asked to contribute a vignette to a collection about Alex Rodriguez. My immediate thought: “Only one?”
I’ve been on the A-Rod ride from the very start of his Yankees journey. Actually, as I wrote, my initial substantive interaction with him occurred less than a month before he became a Yankee. Man, has it been fun. He has been easily the most fascinating person I’ve ever covered, and he set the bar very high for future challengers.
So which vignettes missed my cut? Here are my four other finalists, in chronological order:
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