When you’re a baseball nut growing up in the 70’s…you learn to trust and honor the milestone numbers from the past. Numbers like 511, 755, 2,130, 4,191 are now mostly, and sadly, wiped away by history and happenstance.
536 was always that number for us…it has been everything from a PIN number to a password to a lock combination, and it was tough to see a virtual avalanche of pretenders pass the sanctified five-three-six.
But A-Rod’s different. He really is a righteous ascender of the mountaintop.
Alex Rodriguez has a lot of shit going on right now…but one thing’s for sure…he can hit a baseball.
Mickey Mantle would be proud that a troubled superstar like A-Rod is eclipsing his total.
Wherever you are, and whatever you drink…tip one for The Mick today…he’d like that.
