About this title: Rumoured to be on the verge of a personal and professional collapse so profound it would rate as one of the most dramatic falls in major league history. Through exhaustive reporting and interviews, Roberts will detail A-Rod as a plunge-in-progress, a once-in-a-generation baseball talent tortured by an internal struggle between the polished family man he wants to be and the unabashed hedonist he has become. The storyline will include his dalliances with strippers, infatuation with Madonna, details of his record-breaking $315-million contract, shady real estate empire and further evidence of ...
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061791642ISBN:0061791644
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061791642ISBN:0061791644
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. brand new never opened or read read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2009-05-01
ISBN-13:9780061791642ISBN:0061791644
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Publisher: HarperAudio
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061940897ISBN:0061940895
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781843336129ISBN:184333612X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061791642ISBN:0061791644
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Date Published: 2009
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"I could only force myself to read half of the book. I think the author most have been turned down by A-Rod one too many times....a more appropriate title would have been "Scorned Woman Dishes Every Negative Detail She Can Find About A-Rod." Kudos to her though...I no longer like A-Rod! Really, A-Fraud, giving away Pudge's signals?"
"No doubt, I'm both a huge Yankee and baseball fan (even though football is my real passion) so I was really looking forward to reading this book on A-Rod. I have to give the author, Selena Roberts, credit in writing a very factually-based book, but even with all of the facts, I found the book to be lacking in any objectivity. I expected more from a Sports Illustrated writer. Instead, Roberts gets overly emotional and really grinds her axe against this guy.
So ok, Alex Rodriquez is insecure, a phony, a cheat, a liar, etc. Yeah, he's not one of the good guys, but really, how many true good guys have there been in this sport throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s? I can't think of many, although Jeter automatically comes to mind. Most of the records that have been broken have not been earned squarely. Any baseball fan knows that. And yes, A-Rod will become the all time home run leader and that distinction will forever be tainted just as Barry Bond's breaking that same record has been and will continue to be until Rodriquez surpasses him. The game was on its way to ruin way before Alex Rodriquez came into the picture. He's no different than any of them; yet, Roberts singles him out. I'm not defending A-Rod's bad behavior and illegal use of steriods, but people wake up and realize that he plays a game -that's it. He's not curing any major diseases, he's not working on health care reform, and he's not painting the Mona Lisa. Alex Rodriquez is simply a cultural phenomenom who is part of our American pastime - he is an entertainer. He is not a hero so stop holding people to these standards. Take up your beef with baseball who turned a blind eye to this nonsense when McGwire and Sosa were neck in neck competititon for the most home runs in a season title. Take it up to the player's union who encouraged the illegal use of steriods because it strengthened their bargaining power with the owners. Just stop taking it out on a bunch of stupid players who like petulant children did what they did because they could away with it. There's saying, Roberts, "don't hate the player, hate the game."
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