The Miguel Tejada Age Scandal (Who Cares?)
Author: RL
So Miguel Tejada apparently lied about his age...
ESPN confronted Tejada on a televised interview about the age discrepancy and seemed not to appreciate the questioning and left the interview abruptly.
The big fuss is that he was signed by the Oakland A's in 1993 when he claimed to be 19 but was really 17. But who cares? What are you going to do about it 15 years later?
"E:60" correspondent Tom Farrey presented Tejada with a copy of a birth certificate, filed by his father in his hometown of Bani, that showed he was born on May 25, 1974. The document was acquired by a Dominican law firm hired by ESPN after clerks at the town hall in Bani declared -- improperly -- that Tejada's records were confidential.
Source: ESPN
