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Welcome to the w b Z book
Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Baseball fans

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remembered just a few years ago when
the Houston Astros were charged with cheating using

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a new machine called the edger Tronic, which is a high speed camera capturing

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a thousand frames per second. It
was our own Red Sox manager Alex Cora,

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at the time of bench coach for
Houston, who came up with the

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idea of using this new device for
picking sequences off a monitor, in essence

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reading signs or stealing signals. The
Astros also used old school technology, banging

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on trash cans in the outfield to
let the batters know what kind of pitch

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was coming their way. The book
Cheated, the inside story of the scandal

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and a colorful history of sign stealing, is by Andy Martino, and it

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takes us from the ancient early days
of baseball when someone would be in the

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center field stands using opera glasses to
pick off signs, to the use of

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technology perpetrated by the world champion Astros
for some on a par with the Black

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Sox scandal. Cheated by Andy Martino. The book Club w b Z,

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