Sunday, August 4, 2013

Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, a Star Missed the Signals - NYTimes.com: by George Vecsey

A blunt assessment of the life and fate of Alex Rodriguez by George Vecsey. - GWC
Thrown by Life’s Curveballs, a Star Missed the Signals - NYTimes.com:
by George Vecsey
The singular event in the life of Alex Rodriguez is not his imminent suspension, or the career home run record that now will never happen.

The event that makes him so remote, so rudderless, took place when he was 9, when his father disappeared. This is not pop psychology to explain a man who blundered into the airplane propeller of adult reality. This is his own theory....