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Cheating in Baseball: Past, Present, and Future

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Cheating in Baseball: Past, Present, and Future
A general view as Sean Doolittle #63 of the Washington Nationals delivers the pitch to Martin Maldonado #12 of the Houston Astros during the seventh inning in Game Five of the 2019 World Series at Nationals Park in Washington on Oct. 27, 2019. Will Newton/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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The world of Major League Baseball (MLB) has been rocked by a major scandal. Several teams, most prominently (so far) the 2017 Houston Astros championship team, have been implicated in schemes to steal catchers’ signs to pitchers.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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