A-Rod
Written by Selena Roberts
Narrated by L.J. Ganser
4/5
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About this audiobook
“Diligent, detailed, and overpowering. This is not a book of conjecture: It’s one of bootstrap journalism.”
—New York magazine
The New York Times calls sports journalist Selena Roberts’s blistering biography, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, “Important…devastating…merciless.” A columnist for Sports Illustrated, Roberts pulls no punches in her tough and brilliant New York Times bestseller, an exploration of the multi-million-dollar Yankees slugger’s checkered life and career. A-Rod is an eye-opening, unputdownable look at one of the greatest—and most flawed—players in today’s game.
Selena Roberts
Selena Roberts, formerly a columnist for the New York Times, is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. She lives in Connecticut.
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Reviews for A-Rod
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I need to read another book to get a different perspective because the A-Rod that Selena paints is a sniveling needy man-child that I can't believe that I cheered on for years.
Duped as I feel, it is important to know that I see the whole steroid thing that has happened a few times in baseball as part of our own fault as fans, the MBA, and all pro sports. We all want them to be gods and hit further, run faster, slide effortlessly, etc. While we aren't the ones that put the 'roids in their hand, we did and do expect too much from our sports figures. (stepping down from soap box)
So that isn't what bothered me about this portrait of Rodriguez. It was that he never took responsibility for anything. If he walked outside, it wasn't his fault. Also, his mom and siblings put their all into little Alex in hopes that he would propel them out of poverty. That is a huge burden for a kid and it seems that he never grew up.