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A-Rod's missing link: substance

Updated: May 5, 2009, 3:28 PM ET
By Howard Bryant | ESPN.com

The book is out.

Now what?

The advance billing for Selena Roberts' characterization of Alex Rodriguez, the subject of her biography -- "A-Rod: The Many Faces of Alex Rodriguez" -- has always come with one constant adjective: unflattering. And over 242 pages of text, the word is no exaggeration. Roberts' depiction of Rodriguez as self-obsessed, along with a similarly devastating impression of Rodriguez from the Joe Torre-Tom Verducci book "The Yankee Years," leaves little doubt that ...

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