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A review by socraticgadfly
Baseball Cop by Eddie Dominguez
fast-paced
4.25
As at Goodreads, this isn't quite as high as the stars I give it, even when considered as just a sports book. But, it's underrated by others.
Summary: Dominguez was a Boston PD cop who eventually became a "resident security agent" for the Red Sox. All MLB teams have them; other major team sports have similar, whether under this title or another. They're generally, like Dominguez, cops or detectives with the local metro or major suburban PDs who monitor team security in and around the clubhouse and stadium. They may go on selected road trips; Dominguez regularly went with the BoSox down to Yankee, and also on road postseason games, etc.
Well, a few years later, the Mitchell Report shit hit the MLB fan. And then-commissioner Bud Selig formed a "Department of Investigation." Thanks to connections with NY cops and other things, Dominguez was asked to join the initial team. He was hesitant, being near his 30 years or whatever with the Boston PD, but eventually signed on — if the DOI remained truly independent.
Well, by the time of the investigation of Biogenesis and Alex Rodriguez' roiding supplier Tony Bosch, that independent was being more and more eroded, by Selig and even more his left-hand man (he's not good enough to be a right-hand man), today's commish, Rob Manfred.
Manfred was in a hurry for MLB to finish busting A-Rod and otherwise polishing up Bud's image on roids before he retired, so that Manfred would be guaranteed the succession. He worked on getting DOI folks to stop cooperating with the federal DEA on Bosch so as to expedite baseball's case on A-Rod. If you're a baseball fan, you probably know the bare bones at least of how MLB set Bosch up, and not set him to fail, but set him up as in propped him up. Dominguez has more details, as well as further undercutting of the DOI after Manfred officially took over MLB.
MLB soon thereafter fired the original DOI team. They, in the spirit of Manfred and Bosch, were all offered sizable severances if they'd sign non-disclosures and hold up omerta.
Dominguez was the only one who did not.
Well, a few years later, the Mitchell Report shit hit the MLB fan. And then-commissioner Bud Selig formed a "Department of Investigation." Thanks to connections with NY cops and other things, Dominguez was asked to join the initial team. He was hesitant, being near his 30 years or whatever with the Boston PD, but eventually signed on — if the DOI remained truly independent.
Well, by the time of the investigation of Biogenesis and Alex Rodriguez' roiding supplier Tony Bosch, that independent was being more and more eroded, by Selig and even more his left-hand man (he's not good enough to be a right-hand man), today's commish, Rob Manfred.
Manfred was in a hurry for MLB to finish busting A-Rod and otherwise polishing up Bud's image on roids before he retired, so that Manfred would be guaranteed the succession. He worked on getting DOI folks to stop cooperating with the federal DEA on Bosch so as to expedite baseball's case on A-Rod. If you're a baseball fan, you probably know the bare bones at least of how MLB set Bosch up, and not set him to fail, but set him up as in propped him up. Dominguez has more details, as well as further undercutting of the DOI after Manfred officially took over MLB.
MLB soon thereafter fired the original DOI team. They, in the spirit of Manfred and Bosch, were all offered sizable severances if they'd sign non-disclosures and hold up omerta.
Dominguez was the only one who did not.