In 1900, high-tech cheating involved a board, a telegraph, and a very long length of wire.
Episode Highlights:
- Christy Mathewson explains sign-stealing
- Morgan Murphy and Pearce Chiles, baseball’s Butch and Sundance
- An anonymous informant tells the Reds to follow the wires
- A puddle, a board, and a telegraph buzzer
- The only King Ralph reference you’ll hear this week
- Schemes proliferate throughout the “noble” National League
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Original Research and Writing: Paul Jackson
Production and Music: Ted Walker
Design: Ketaki Kulkarni
