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Larceny and Old Leather
Summary
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. In LARCENY AND OLD LEATHER: THE MISCHIEVOUS LEGACY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, Eldon Ham—sports lawyer, professor, and author—traces the game’s lesser-known, roguish past. His wry chapters, filled with anecdotes and statistics, expose both the hidden and the obvious cheating occurring throughout baseball’s history, from corked bats and spitballs to betting and media hyperbole. Here is a book for both seasoned baseball fans and neophytes who’d like to get a look at the game that evolved into an industry. Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa, Pete Rose, and many other lesser known players make their appearance in this fascinating history, as Ham seeks not only to chronicle the legacy of deception inherent within the game, but also to explore why it is, and how it is, that this deception is exactly what makes baseball the most endearing of American games.
Author Bio
Eldon L. Ham 是一位从事体育法律研究、任教并撰写体育题材作品的作者，长期关注棒球历史与体育文化。他的写作兼具学术视角与通俗表达，善于从规则、传统和社会背景中梳理体育运动中的细节与故事。在《Larceny and Old Leather》中，他聚焦职业棒球鲜为人知的机智与欺骗传统，展现了其对体育史的深入观察。
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