McCarron spoke to A-Rod prior to Iron Bowl
By Alex Scarborough
Published December 10, 2013, 04:06:08 PM
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi has been around the Alabama football program a few times after having Tide coach Nick Saban to New York to speak to his team during the offseason. Even the most famous of pinstriped ballplayers, Derek Jeter, came to Tuscaloosa in November to take in the Alabama-LSU game.
All those happenings, while extraordinary in their own right, seem feasible within the bubble of big-time sports, another instance of one historically significant franchise reaching out to another.
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