Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
It probably wasn’t the answer Fox Sports producers expected, but when Alex Rodriguez asked Reggie Jackson how emotional he was to come back to a ballpark in Alabama he lit up as a minor-leaguer in the late sixties, the hall-of-famer gave a riposte that you could teach in schools.
In baseball terms, Rodriguez threw Jackson a softball, and the old-timer knocked it out of the park.
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