Baseball's Cardinals say committed to finding truth about data breach

Federal authorities are investigating the Cardinals to determine who, if anyone connected with the baseball team, was involved in the data breach concerning Astros' trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports. "These are serious allegations that don’t reflect who we are as an organization," William DeWitt Jr. said in a statement. There is evidence that officials of the Cardinals, who won the 2006 and 2011 World Series and are one of the sport's most respected franchises, broke into the Astros' network of special databases, according to a report in the New York Times on Tuesday.

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