Alex Rodriguez is the highest-paid player in the  history of baseball, a once-in-a-generation talent poised to break many of the  sport's most hallowed records. In 2007 he became the youngest player, at 32,  ever to hit 500 home runs, solidifying his status as the greatest player in  the modern game, and months later he signed a contract that would keep him  with the Yankees through the end of his career.    His reputation changed  drastically in February 2009 when Selena Roberts broke the news in Sports  Illustrated that A-Rod had used performance-enhancing drugs during his 2003  MVP season with the Texas Rangers. Her report prompted a contrite Rodriguez to  admit illegal drug use during his 2001–2003 seasons with the Rangers, who had  signed him to the most expensive contract in Major League Baseball  history.    Although he admitted to three seasons of steroid use, the man  teammates call "A-Fraud" was still hiding the truth. In the first definitive  biography of Alex Rodriguez, Roberts assembles the strands of a bizarre and  extraordinary life: from his boyhood in New York and the Dominican Republic  through his near-mythic high school career and fast track to the big leagues,  the whole of A-Rod's career mirrors the rise and fall of the steroid  generation.    Roberts goes beyond the sensational headlines, probing  A-Rod's childhood to reveal a man torn by obligation to his family and the  pull of his insatiable hedonism, a conflict--epitomized by his relationship  with Madonna and devotion to Kabbalah--that led to the end of his six-year  marriage. Roberts sheds new light on A-Rod's abuse of performance-enhancing  drugs, a practice he appears to have begun as early as high school and that  extended into his Yankee years. She chronicles his secretive real estate  deals, gets inside the negotiations for his latest record-breaking contract  with the Yankees, and examines the insecurities that compel him to seek  support from a motivational guru before every game.    In A-Rod, Roberts  captures baseball's greatest player as a tragic figure in pinstripes: the man  once considered the clean exception of the steroid generation revealed as an  unmistakable product of its greed and dissolution.

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