Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that

matters. That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which

we talk to authors of baseball books past and present. Today, Mark Garmore returns to the podcast.

He's previously been on to talk about his biography of Joe Cronin and other books.

Today he's here to talk about a new book that he co-wrote with Dan Levitt. It's called Intentional

Bach, Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating. Let's get started.

Hi, Mark. Welcome back to Baseball by the book. Happy to. Hi, Mark.

Welcome back to baseball by the buck.

Happy to be here, Justin.

Thank you.

I have been watching some Houston Astros games recently in which they're playing on the road.

And one thing that I've noticed and anybody else who's been watching Astros, I'm sure

has noted, is that, like, Jose Al-Tuvae gets booed every time he comes up, every time he touches

the ball in the field. People are just merciless. The fans are merciless about him. And this,

of course, all goes back to the Astros sign stealing scheme from a few years ago, primarily

2017, but I think it also went into 2018 some. And I'm just really curious about that.

I find it really fascinating because we know there are guys who play every day in Major

League Baseball who have a history of domestic abuse.

We know there are guys who have posted crazy things on Twitter and Facebook.

We know there are guys who have done horrible things on and off the field. We We know there are guys who have done horrible things

on and off the field. We even know there are guys who are steroid cheaters who don't get booed.

But Jose Al Tuve, every time he comes up is getting booed. I'm just fascinated by it.

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