Alex Rodriguez Broke Into Spring Camp With The Seattle...

In 1994, an 18-year-old kid from Miami named Alex Rodriguez broke into spring camp with the Seattle Mariners in an attempt to make the team. After almost immediately stepping into a Major League baseball field he became a household name. Within two years, he was an All-Star. Within five, a regular 40-homer player. By the turn of the century, many were already putting him into the Hall of Fame discussion. On August 12, 2016, Rodriguez played what will be his final game as a New York Yankee after an incredible 12 years in New York. Considering the 41-year-old’s lack of playing time and declining production after a resurgent effort in 2015, this may very well be the end of the A-Rod era entirely. And for A-Rod, he was prepared to leave the game he fell in love with as a child. I do want to be remembered as someone who was madly in love with the game of baseball, someone who loves it at every level, Rodriguez said. Someone who loves to learn it, play it, teach it, coach it. And also, I m going to be hopefully remembered as someone who tripped and fell a lot, but someone that kept getting up. Rodriguez has led a very controversial 22-year baseball career. His lowest moment being when he was infamously suspended for the entire 2014 season following the Biogenesis investigation. The longest suspension ever served in Major League Baseball history. But his story did not end there. In his 2015 campaign, in an attempt to redeem himself and earn back the love from the fans