Baseball Cop, Eddie Dominguez
Baseball Cop, Eddie Dominguez
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Baseball Cop

Author: Eddie Dominguez, Christian Red, Teri Thompson

Narrator: Eddie Dominquez, Jason Culp, Edward Bauer

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/28/2018


Synopsis

Exposing trafficking, theft, fraud, and gambling in the major leagues, a founding member of the MLB's Department of Investigations reveals a news-breaking true story of power and corruption.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by HR-ML on September 13, 2021

Hardback. Eddie Dominguez was a Boston City Policeman then detective, for 29 years, & for 10 yrs he simultaneously served on the FBI drug task force catching drug dealers. At the same time he worked for Major League Baseball (MLB) as a resident security agent (RSA) for the Red Sox. MLB at times aske......more

Goodreads review by Socraticgadfly on January 10, 2023

Gets 5 stars for two reasons. First, within its genre, of sports books, and sports journalism books, it's at least a solid 4. Second, a LOT of people are rating this way too low, primarily people who aren't big baseball fans, but perhaps a few who are. == Summary: Dominguez was a Boston PD cop who event......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 07, 2018

Meh. I came close to putting it down a few times. I'm a huge baseball fan but this one was challenging to hold my interest. The author is a cop-turned-steroids-investigator and very clearly is frustrated by what he sees as a conspiracy between MLB itself and its worst steroids abusers, to allow some......more

Goodreads review by Reid on January 17, 2019

In late 2007, former United State Senator George Mitchell published Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball. Commonly it is known as the “Mitchell Report.” Al......more

Goodreads review by David on January 09, 2022

I would say the book was enlightening but really for me it was not. You have to respect the author’s decades of law enforcement and his culminating stint as an officer of internal security for MLB. However, as one who was not already familiar with the circumstances of the Mitchell Report (beyond I r......more


Quotes

"Ha[s] its share of stories to tell....amusing."
Boston Herald

"Details the shocking revelations [Dominguez] discovered as a Resident Security Agent for the Red Sox and as a member of baseball's Department of Investigations -- gambling, age and identity fraud, human trafficking, doping, domestic violence and disturbing cover-ups at the top of baseball's hierarchy."—New York Daily News