THE COST
by Patrick T. Reardon
Do you understand?
My first love.
I owe it.
Paying the price.
SOURCE: “Exclusive Interview: Yankees’ Rodriguez discusses his enduring ‘love’ for baseball” by Joel Sherman, New York Post (July 20, 2013).
IMAGE: “To Be or not to Be in MLB” by Dan Haraga. Prints available at fineartamerica.com.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: I’m a New York Yankees fan, but not especially an Alex Rodriguez fan. His interviews are fascinatingly vapid, and I wondered if there was some kernel of beauty hidden away somewhere. The one I used can be found here.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patrick T. Reardon, a Chicagoan born and bred, is a former scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library.
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