Alex Rodriguez

Rodriguez was married to Cynthia Scrutis, a psychology graduate, from 2002-2008. They both have two daughters together: Natasha and Ella. Cynthia took divorce from him on the grounds of marital misconduct, extra-marital affairs and emotional abandonment.

Alex Rodriguez was born in New York City to Victor Rodriguez and Lourdes Navarro. The family owned a shoe store and lived behind that store. They move to Miami and settled there when he was around 4 years old.

Rodriguez loved playing baseball and when his father left the family to live in New York, baseball became his sole solace. He attended the Christopher Columbus High School and Westminster Christian School.

At the age of 17, he turned down University of Miami's baseball scholarship and instead signed with the Seattle Mariners and became their number one overall pick of the amateur draft in 1993. He signed it for 3 years at 1.6 million US dollars.

Rodriguez made his debut appearance with Seattle Mariners at the age of 18 in 1994, playing shortstop in a game against the Red Sox at Fenway and in the next year, he had hit his first home run against Kansas City at Kingdome.

In 1995, he was assigned to Seattle's Triple-A club and was made the starting shortstop of the team. He made it to the cover of Sports Illustrated, headline saying "Short Story: Jeter and Rodriguez head up the finest group of shortsports since WWII".

He became the Sports News and Associated Press's selection for the Major League Player of the Year in 1997 and almost became the Youngest Most Valuable Player in the baseball history in that year but lost the title to Juan Gonzalez.

From 1998-2000, Rodriguez was selected as Players Choice AL Player of the Year. He also won his 2nd Silver Slugger Award and became the Major League Player of the Year by Baseball America. He had an average of .301, 42 home runs and 111 RBI.

He signed with Texas Rangers in 2001, it was worth 252 million US dollars, the most lucrative sports contract ever in the history. Rangers pounded White Sox 16-6, and Rodriguez made his 200th and 201st home runs.

Rodriguez is a 12-time AL All-Star winner and 10-time AL Silver Slugger Award winner. He had twice been Seattle Mariners Player of the Year and also a 3-time Babe Ruth Home Run Award winner.

He has been named Seattle Mariners Minor League Player of the Year, Midwest League All-Star, The Sporting News Player of the Year, Hitter of the Year, Pepsi Clutch Performer of the Year and This Year in Baseball Awards: Player of the Year.