Major League Baseball Tries to Shut Down Scandalous Tell-All by Ex-Investigator
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Major League Baseball tried to stop publication of a tell-all by an insider that dishes dirt on the sport’s most scandalous secrets, from doping to allegations of human trafficking, The Daily Beast has learned.
The league—which is reportedly under federal investigation—made it clear it wasn’t playing around. It retained the aggressive law firm Clare Locke, which has boasted in the past about “killing stories,” in a failed quest to keep “Baseball Cop” by former league investigator Eddie Dominguez out of stores.
Clare Locke fired off a strongly worded five-page letter to the publisher, Hachette, on Aug. 27, just one day before the book was scheduled to hit shelves, claiming it was “defamatory.”