Larceny and Old Leather : The Mischievous Legacy of Major League
Every baseball player from little league to the big leagues knows it is illegal to steal signs, yet every major league team assigns someone to do just that. Baseball thrives on trickery and deception. But as our oldest major team sport, its larcenous legacy goes much deeper than the field of play. I...
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Chicago :
Chicago Review Press,
2005
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: The Prodigal Game
- Part I: Steal This Game!
- Lumber!
- Screwballs and Greaseballs
- Grass, Monsters and the Yankee Curtain
- Stealing First
- The Giants Steal the Pennant!
- Breaking the Midget Barrier
- Goats, Gods and Curses
- Part II: All the Babe's Men
- The Decade That Roared
- Stealing Radio
- The Luckiest Game Alive
- Part III: Stealing History
- The Evil Game?
- The Cobb Conspiracy
- Hal Chase: Malignant Genius
- The Roger Maris Asterisk
- The Village Idiot
- The Theft of Gary Matthews
- The Ueberroth Cabal
- A Rose is a Rose
- Part IV: Had Satchel Been White: The Truth About Racism and Baseball
- The Legend of Charlie Grant
- Rickey and Robinson: Stealing History
- The Greenberg Conspiracy
- Part V: The Great Baseball Conspiracy
- The Great Baseball Outrage
- The Business that isn't a Business
- Searching for Mudville