Doping Inquiry Has Baseball Playing Tough

By STEVE EDER, NYT

Mark J. Sullivan worked for the Secret Service for the past 30 years. He was in charge of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail when she was first lady, and he became the director of the agency for nearly seven years.

Now Major League Baseball has deployed him in its pursuit of players suspected of doping. His hiring is one of the most notable examples of the tough means the league is using to try to expose some of its biggest stars.

In striking contrast to how the league once dealt with performance-enhancing drugs — it was long derided for turning a blind eye as players bulked up and rewrote the record books — baseball officials are using unusually tough measures to expose some of the sport’s biggest stars.

The Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers appear to be squarely in the league’s cross hairs. Rodriguez met with league investigators on Friday for their examination into a South Florida anti-aging clinic believed to be a distributor of banned substances.

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