Spitballs, corked bats, sign stealing and, yes, even steroids – they’re all part of baseball, and they’re all part of Derek Zumsteg’s new book – The Cheater’s Guide to Baseball.
Checking in at just over 250 pages, it’s amazing how people have tried to get the upper hand throughout the history of baseball. From hard slides [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 19, 2007
The Cheater’s Guide to Baseball – by Derek Zumsteg
April 14, 2007
Diamond Dollar$ by Vince Genarro
If you read Mychael Lewis’ Moneyball, you probably felt pretty smart afterwards. At the time, it was charting some new waters of baseball writing – a first hand look inside the mind of a major league general manager and what he looks for when scouting talent. Factor in that it had to be done on [...]
April 14, 2007
The New Ballgame by Glenn Guzzo
Taking someone to their first baseball game can be a pretty fun experience. You get to reignite your passion for the game by showing someone all the intricacies of baseball – the hit and run, stealing a base, and the magic that is baseball. But inevitably the time comes when the newbie asks you: “so, [...]
