Why now? Tejada was approached Tuesday by ESPN. 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 his records were confidential.
ESPN plans to air its report on Tejada as part of its April 22 show
“The thing is I didn’t want Houston to find out from somebody else,” Tejada Link
Astros general manager Ed Wade said. “His green card, his driver’s license, everything that he uses personally shows ‘74 as his date of birth,…” Link