Baseball Battling Dominican Drug Use While Grappling With A-Rod
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The Dominican Republic sandlots that produce some of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars have become the No. 1 headache to its anti-doping enforcers.
Players from the Caribbean nation, homeland of three starters in this season’s All-Star Game, committed 53 percent of the sport’s performance-enhancing drug offenses since the Mitchell Report recommended stricter enforcement in December 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.