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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1505: Sign Stealing is a Flat Circle

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In a special narrative episode of Effectively Wild, Ben Lindbergh traces the parallels between baseball’s latest sign-stealing crisis and an almost 60-year-old sign-stealing scandal that caused a comparable upheaval in the sport, drawing on archival clips, contemporary music, and interviews with author Paul Dickson and former major leaguers Eddie Robinson, Al Worthington, and Jay Hook […]

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Well, I put your own around me like suckling the sun

0:04.0

Stay with me baby like my easy rider Johnny

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If you don't think I love you, look what a fool I've been

0:09.0

If you don't think I'm sick and look at a whole lot of me

0:12.0

Now I'm a steamy Steamy

0:15.0

Put a mama doch until I'm mean

0:18.0

Now I'm a steamy Mac and my good old used to be

0:24.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1505

0:27.0

of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Fangrafts

0:31.0

Presented by our supporters on Patreon. I am Ben Lenturk of The Ringer

0:35.0

On President's Day, hours after All Stars, Mike Trout, just a turner and

0:40.0

Claybert Torres sounded off about baseball sign stealing scandal

0:43.0

And hours before, Braves outfielder Nick Marquiquis

0:46.0

When asked to pet the Astros answered

0:48.0

Every single guy over there needs a beating

0:50.0

I called 99 year old Eddie Robinson, the oldest living former Major Leaker

0:55.0

Robinson who played first base in the big leagues before and after serving the Navy during World War II

1:00.0

is a native Texan who still lives in the state and once worked in the Astros front office

1:04.0

He's also the last living member of the 1948 Cleveland Indians who still signs during their stretch run via

1:10.0

spy station in the center field scoreboard and equipped with a tripod mounted telescope

1:14.0

The spy and off duty pitcher would relay the signs to a member of the grounds crew

1:18.0

who sat in the bleachers wearing a white uniform and closed and opened his legs

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