[HARDCOVER: US] ‘A-Rod’ rehashes Yankee clunker’s string of gaffes

A doper, a cheater, a spectacular power hitter and a jerk — that’s what we already know about Alex Rodriguez. In her new book, Selena Roberts repeats all this and adds a few new accusations

By David M. Shribman / BLOOMBERG

The Rodriguez that emerges from this slim volume sure isn’t enhanced. Number 13 swinging the bat provides, as Roberts says, “a split-second gala of force and grace and confidence.’’ It reminds us how much we, and Rodriguez himself, have lost from the old days when, as she puts it, “there was a genuine, lovable core in Alex.’’ The core is gone and the thrill is gone, too.

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