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Alex Rodriguez. He came up alongside Nomar Garciaparra and Derek Jeter and it looked for all the world that the three of them would have long productive careers and all be enshrined in the Hall together. Alex was a 14-time All-star, a 10-time Silver Slugger, a 5-time Home Run leader, a Batting Champion, a 4-time Hank Aaron Award winner, a 3-time MVP, 6 Player's Choice Awards, a Babe Ruth Award, a World Championship, two Gold Glove Awards and a 40 home run/40 stolen base season. The stats are amazing. More than 3000 hits, more than 2000 RBI, four homers short of 700. His 25 grand slams are the most in MLB history. That's definitely a Hall of Fame resume but Alex wanted more and his career will forever be defined by his foray into performance enhancing drugs and questionable behavior. He earned more than $441 MILLION playing ball but I'll never forget him swatting the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove on his way to first or him yelling, "I got it" distracting the Blue Jays infielders in 2007 causing them to back off an easy pop up or Jason Varitek feeding him his catcher's mitt. He says he's sorry for all that and I believe he is truly sorry . . . that he got caught. He'll be eligible for the Hall in 2022 and personally I don't think he's getting in. He became a major disappointment for me as I invested and accumulated so many of his cards that resulted in him being my second largest player collection. As of this date I have 2821 unique Beckett recognized cards of ARod including these nine from my collection.

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1995 Pinnacle New Blood #NB1 Alex Rodriguez
1995 Score Rookie Dream Team #RDT3 Alex Rodriguez
1995 Select Certified Potential Unlimited 903 #20 Alex Rodriguez

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1998 Collector's Choice StarQuest Triple #7 Alex Rodriguez
1998 Revolution Major League Icons #5 Alex Rodriguez (I'd just like to state again how much I miss Pacific cards.)
2003 Fleer Patchworks Numbers Game Jersey #AR Alex Rodriguez

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2003 Stadium Club Born in the USA Relics #AR Alex Rodriguez Bat
2008 Topps Back to School #TB7 Alex Rodriguez (An insert found in specially marked "Back to School" packages of 2008 Topps.)
2013 Topps Tribute Transitions Relics #AR Alex Rodriguez