Welcome to the w b Z book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Baseball fans
remembered just a few years ago when the Houston Astros were charged with cheating using
a new machine called the edger Tronic, which is a high speed camera capturing
a thousand frames per second. It was our own Red Sox manager Alex Cora,
at the time of bench coach for Houston, who came up with the
idea of using this new device for picking sequences off a monitor, in essence
reading signs or stealing signals. The Astros also used old school technology, banging
on trash cans in the outfield to let the batters know what kind of pitch
was coming their way. The book Cheated, the inside story of the scandal
and a colorful history of sign stealing, is by Andy Martino, and it
takes us from the ancient early days of baseball when someone would be in the
center field stands using opera glasses to pick off signs, to the use of
technology perpetrated by the world champion Astros for some on a par with the Black
Sox scandal. Cheated by Andy Martino. The book Club w b Z,
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