Alex Rodriguez: The Talented Baseball Player

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Alex" Rodriguez is still alive, he is 40 years of age, and was born July 27, 1975. He’s an American professional baseball player and now plays for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He formerly played for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez was one of the sport's highly flaunted prospects and is considered one of the talented baseball players of all time. Rodriguez was born in the Washington Heights, a piece of New York City, to a Dominican family. When he was four years old, Rodriguez and his parents moved to Dominican Republic, then to Miami, Florida. In 2010 after a victory, Alex attended a ceremony put on by the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, to which he generously donated $250,000 in opening a new children's

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