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First & Last: A-Rod’s homers Alex Rodriguez collects his first home run on June 12, 1995 and his last on July 18, 2016
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Alex Rodriguez will become eligible for election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022.
He hopes that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, two of his contemporaries, will have gotten the call to Cooperstown by then.“Of course I want them to get in, because that would mean that I have an opportunity to get in one day,” Rodriguez said on ESPN’s “First Take” on Wednesday, the day after the Hall of Fame’s 2019 class was announced.
Three of A-Rod’s former teammates made the Hall this year — Edgar Martinez, Mariano Rivera and Mike Mussina — but Bonds and Clemens did not. In their seventh year of the 10-year eligibility window on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot, Bonds saw his vote share increase from 56.4 percent to 59.1 percent, while Clemens’ increased from 57.3 percent to 59.5 percent. Candidates must receive 75 percent of the vote to be inducted.
Bonds and Clemens have…
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