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Article: ALEX RODRIGUEZ Master of Baseball Arts.(Brief Article)
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Talented shortstop is fascinated with education and has earned high grades as one of game's top stars
SAY THE NAME "LEONARDO" around Alex Rodriguez, and you'll get a story about da Vinci instead of DiCaprio.
When he's not playing shortstop for the Seattle Mariners, Rodriguez, 24, likes to jet ski, listen to Frank Sinatra and hang out with his three dogs. But what really blows A-Rod away these days is da Vinci, the 15th-century genius who studied astronomy, anatomy. geometry, botany and geology while squeezing in time to paint the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
A book on da Vinci sits on Rodriguez's bedside table: "He wrote his notes backward so ...