The Stayed-One-Year-Too-Long Blues

Not every player can go out like David Ortiz. Not many last seasons are like Mariano Rivera’s. Ted Williams’ 1960 curtain-call rarely happens.

Not every player can go out like David Ortiz. Not many last seasons are like Mariano Rivera’s. Ted Williams’ 1960 curtain-call rarely happens.
Alex Rodriguez’s retirement marks the end of baseball’s funnest era: the days of the swashbuckling ballplayer who lived out his personal life on the back pages.
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