Yankee fans snapped up copies of the bombshell new Alex Rodriguez book Monday as the tell-all tome went on sale at stores and on the Web.
The inside account of A-Rod’s steroid-tarnished career by Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts debuted at No. 59 on Amazon.com and is now the best-selling sports book and best-selling biography on the site.
Ishmail Jones, a student living in Manhattan, said he’s a “big fan” of A-Rod and plans to read the book.
“I’ve heard so much about it, I want to read about the steroids and about his personality,” Jones said. “I look up to him a lot, and when the controversy came out I was like, ‘Wow.’”
At the Yankee Clubhouse Shop in Times Square, Leo Giargiana said he’ll buy the book because he trusts Roberts’ reporting.
“Everything she’s written before has been accurate,” said Giargiana of Brooklyn. “This book’s going to open a whole can of worms.”
The book’s release was moved up by several days after the Daily News reported some of its key details last week.
Roberts reveals in the book that Rodriguez may have used steroids as early as high school and was suspected of being on the juice while playing for the Yankees.
A sales clerk at the Borders store at W. 33th St. said “A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” is still not outselling Joe Torre’s book, which came out several weeks ago.
Richard Wilt, an actor from midtown, couldn’t resist buying a copy on the first day.
“How can someone who has it all make himself so unpopular and unattractive to others?” he said. “It’s fascinating and a shame, too.”
A-Rod isn’t talking about the book. Yankees manager Joe Girardi blasted the author for her unflattering portrait of the MVP slugger.
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