Bat Alex Rodriguez used to get first major-league hit up for auction

Long before the dishonest steroid denials, the season-long drug suspension,  Biogenesis and Tony Bosch,  Alex Rodriguez was a teenage baseball prospect with awe-inspiring talent and sky’s-the-limit potential. A Southern California sports memorabilia company is offering a souvenir of those times: SCP Auctions is selling the bat the Yankee star used to notch his first major-league hit.