MIAMI - Alex Rodriguez pointed to an adjoining baseball field.
"When I was nine years old, on that field," A-Rod said late Tuesday morning to a group of about 50 young kids, "I learned how to throw a baseball."
This has been a two-day homecoming for the Yankees' 39-year-old designated hitter, a native of Miami, and Tuesday he returned where, he said, "it all started."
Which is the Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade Hank Kline Club, where A-Rod's baseball career officially began and where he will still randomly pop by during the offseason to take grounders.