Research Catalog

Title

Baseball cop : the dark side of America's national pastime / Eddie Dominguez ; with Christian Red & Teri Thompson.

Author

Dominguez, Eddie

Publication

• New York : Hachette Books, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Red, Christian
• Thompson, Teri

Description

294 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Describes the corruption, including drug use, theft, and human trafficking, witnessed by the author during his nine years working in security for the Boston Red Sox and his six years working for Major League Baseball to clean up the sport.
• "In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the subsequent Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball established the Department of Investigations (DOI). An internal and autonomous unit, it was created to not only eliminate the use of steroids, but also to rid baseball of any other illegal, unsavory, or unethical activities. The DOI would investigate the dark side of the national pastime--gambling, age and identity fraud, human trafficking, cover-ups, and more--with the singular purpose of cleaning up the game. Eduardo Dominguez Jr. was a founding member of that first DOI team, leaving a stellar career with the Boston Police Department to join four other 'supercops'--a group that included a 9/11 hero, a mob-buster, and narcotics experts--keeping watch over Major League Baseball. A decorated detective as well as a member of an FBI task force, Dominguez was initially reluctant to leave his law-enforcement career to work full-time in baseball. He had already seen the game's underbelly when he worked as a resident security agent (RSA) for the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and become wary of the game's commitment to any kind of reform. Only at the persuasion a widely respected NYPD detective tapped to lead the DOI did Dominguez agree to join the unit, which was the first--and last--of its kind in major American sports. 'We could clean up this game, ' his new boss promised. In Baseball Cop, Dominguez shares the shocking revelations he confronted every day for six years with the DOI and nine as an RSA. He shines a light on the inner workings of the commissioner's office and the complicity of baseball's bosses in dealing with the misdeeds compromising the integrity of the game. Dominguez details the investigations and the obstacles--from the Biogenesis scandal to the perilous trafficking of Cuban players now populating the game to the theft of prospects' signing bonuses by buscones, street agents, and even clubs' employees. He further reveals how the mandates of former senator George Mitchell's report were modified or ignored altogether. Bracing and eye-opening, Baseball Cop is a wake-up call for anyone concerned about America's national pastime."--Jacket.
• Following 2005's congressional hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the subsequent Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball established the Department of Investigations (DOI). It was created to not only eliminate the use of steroids, but also to rid baseball of any other illegal, unsavory, or unethical activities-- gambling, age and identity fraud, human trafficking, cover-ups, and more-- with the singular purpose of cleaning up the game. Dominguez was a founding member of that first DOI team. Now he shares the shocking revelations he confronted every day for six years with the DOI, detailing the investigations-- and the obstacles they faced. -- adapted from jacket.

Subjects

• Baseball > Corrupt practices
• Baseball players > Abuse of
• Baseball > Corrupt practices > United States
• Baseball players > Abuse of > United States
• United States
• Dominguez, Eddie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index.

Contents

The beginning of the end -- Cuban roots -- BPD -- The FBI drug task force -- Operation Barbershop -- "Stand down!" -- Player trafficking -- Bonus skimming -- The early shocks of biogenesis -- Double cross -- "Tell the DEA I want this done f--ing now!" -- Hacker -- Justice -- "Queen for a day" -- "This town is a hustler's town."

Call Number

JFE 18-8034

ISBN

• 9780316483971
• 0316483974

LCCN

2018935830

OCLC

1048608290

Author

Dominguez, Eddie, author.

Title

Baseball cop : the dark side of America's national pastime / Eddie Dominguez ; with Christian Red & Teri Thompson.

Publisher

New York : Hachette Books, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index.

Added Author

Red, Christian, author.

Thompson, Teri, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-8034