When baseball is the only escape from poverty, some Dominicans see steroids as worth the risk

SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic — A monument to baseball greets visitors to this city known as “the cradle of shortstops.” Children in San Pedro de Macoris grow up playing ball behind tin shanties and on fields cut from sugar plantations.

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