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A-Rod has destroyed game's history

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Sunday, February 8, 2009

In baseball, we love our numbers. And we love our heroes. And that brings us to Alex Rodriguez, a man who has committed a crime he doesn't even understand: A crime against the once-proud history of his sport. A-Rod didn't commit that crime alone, of course. In many ways, he is just the latest, greatest face of a mass conspiracy that has now succeeded in obliterating the quality that used to separate baseball from the rest of the sporting jungle. Once, the numbers of baseball used to mean some ...

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