Alexander Emmanuel “Alex” Rodriguez, popularly known as A-Rod by fans, has recently became the seventh and the youngest baseball player to attain the feat of 600 career home runs. Presently a part of the New York Yankees, Álex Rodriguez made his debut on July 8, 1994 for the Seattle Mariners. Ever since the, there has been no looking back for the game of baseball, A-Rod, and fans.

The favorite team of Rodriguez was the New York Mets and his favorite players when he was growing up were Keith Hernandez, Cal Ripken, and Dale Murphy. With a batting average of .303, Rodriguez is today right there at the top and is expected to beat Barry Bonds‘ all time record of 762 home runs.

However things were not going to be smooth for this American Major League Baseball third baseman of Dominican parentage as he was accused of using performance enhancing drugs in February 2009. The star player refuted all allegations initially but later admitted to using steroids from 2001 to 2003 during a 2007 interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes. The personal front was not any better - Rodriguez and his wife separated in 2008 and these were the times when he was linked with pop singer Madonna.

Today, Álex Rodriguez seems calm and composed much to the delight of his fans and he is all destined to break some more records on the baseball field. While some former players and fans have stopped talking about A-Rod, the record books haven’t taken care of his past association with anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

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Baseball is a sport evenstop them from  that is popular in America. The bat-and-ball sport is played between two teams comprising of nine players each. The main aim of baseball is to score more runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases that are arranged in a specific order at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. The players belonging to one team will take turns by hitting while the other team attempts to

Stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of different ways. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team gets three outs. The team that scores maximum runs at the end of the game wins.Baseball is popular in North America, particularly in the United States, Central America, parts of South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is thought to have originated in England before 1755. Baseball reached North America through British and Irish immigrants. In the late nineteenth century, baseball got wide recognition as the national sport of the United States. It was in 1838, that Baseball gained wide popularity in the American continent.
Baseball is considered as the big game event in the American land. But, the sport is also spread over different countries as well. The history of baseball in Canada is linked closely with that of the sport in the United States.

The first formal baseball league outside of the United States and Canada was founded in 1878 in Cuba. The country has a rich baseball tradition and the national team is strong since the 1930’s. Baseball is popular in many European countries also. Many countries like Ireland, England, Netherlands and France has strong baseball teams. As of 2004, the International Baseball Federation has 112 member countries, which takes part in baseball matches.

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