Miguel Tejada

Miguel grew up in extreme poverty in Bani, a city approximately 40 miles southwest of Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. His childhood was difficult, but he always maintained the dream of playing professional baseball.

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The dream came true when Miguel was signed by the Oakland Athletics at the age of seventeen in 1993. His signing bonus was $2000.

Bani: :For the Philippine municipality, see Bani, Pangasinan....

Santo Domingo: Santo Domingo, population 2,061,200 (2003), is the capital of the Dominican Republic. The city is located at , on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the Ne...

Baseball: Baseball is a team sport, a bat-and-ball game, in which a hard, fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher, and an offensive player called a batter attempts to hit it with a tapered, cylindrical, smooth stick called a bat. The ball itself is also called a baseball. Scoring is a...

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