Off-Field Fleece: Miguel Tejada Lied About His Age

Babes Love Baseball found this 4/17/2008 on mlbfleecefactor.com [flag]

Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada has admitted to Houston General Manager Ed Wade that he has been lying about his age for 15 years, as per the Houston Chronicle . Tejada is currently 33-years-old instead of the 31 year-old age that he is listed as in the club’s media guide and other baseball records. It turns out that Tejada was actually 19 when he signed with the Oakland A’s in 1993, ... [link]

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Miggy Comes Clean
Published 4/17/2008 by Sooze at Babes Love Baseball
... -- when his actual birth certificate was presented to him. He grew up poor in the Dominican Republic, and thought it would make him more valuable if he told the Oakland Athletics he was 17 (really 19) when he signed with them in 1993. Tejada's character is already under federal investigation after he allegedly lied to government authorities regarding steroid use. Does this make him a bad person? Not really. A poor decision-maker? Probably. [National Post] [MLB Fleece Factor] [Houstoned Ballz] [The Fourth Out] ...

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