Alex Rodriguez at 40: A look back at his most memorable moments

On July 27, 1975, Alex Rodriguez entered planet Earth, and it wasn't long before the baseball icon was out to grab national headlines forever.

Today, A-Rod is 40, and still swinging away for the New York Yankees. How we got here, though, is a tale that will live on in baseball lore—for better and for worse -- until the end of time.

Click through the gallery above to take a stroll through A-Rod's career. Beginning innocently in Seattle, and hundreds of millions of dollars -- and two PED incidents -- later, ending up in the Big Apple.

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