This week, there were reports that Alex Rodriguez might get a lifetime ban from Major League baseball for performance-enhancing drugs. But years ago he was a 17-year-old high school standout drafted by the Seattle Mariners.
We went back into the KIRO 7 archive to find videos of his draft day, a time when Mariners fans didn't want him to leave, and the day a Seattle sports columnist first called him Pay-Rod.
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