Why is it always the Dodgers involved in the sign stealing games and on the losing end?
SIGN STEALING IS NOTHING NEW,
Read on to learn about how the New York Baseball Giants took the Pennant from the Brooklyn Dodgers way back in the 1950s with The “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”
It took only 50 years for the secret to come out, ten years ago, in 2000, it was revealed that the New York Giants took sign stealing to a new level.
It involved Bobby Thomson’s walk-off home run against Ralph Branca, the famous “Shot Heard ’Round the World” that won the pennant for the Giants in the last game of a three-game playoff against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
After decades of silence, some of the ’51 Giants admitted that their team was using a telescope from center field and a buzzer in the dugout to signal pitches to coaches, who’d then signal the batter.
Sign stealing is as old as the good old game, which stays pretty much the same, except somebody's always coming up with a better mousetrap/sign stealing thing.
Sign stealing is as old as the good old game, which stays pretty much the same, except somebody's always coming up with a better mousetrap/sign stealing thing.
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