No one likes being lied to. Least of all MLB owners who have showered young Dominican prospects with millions of dollars, only to find out that said prospects were not so young.
MLB Considers Fingerprinting Dominican Prospects
↵So what is to be done? More extensive background checks? Genetic testing? Ah, how about fingerprinting! According to the New York Times, this is indeed the genius solution MLB executives have stumbled upon.
↵If the idea of a corporation fingerprinting 11-16 year old kids anywhere, let alone overseas, doesn’t sound like a bad idea, consider the context:
↵↵Fingerprinting, Mnookin also noted, was a part of colonialism, an association that she said baseball would clearly not welcome.
↵“Perhaps similar to how some may see baseball, fingerprinting was used by the British in the late 19th century in India because they though the natives could not be trusted,” she said.
↵↵Something tells me Ari Fleischer might be getting a call from Bud Selig any day now.
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