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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
1. Electronic sign stealing has not been going on for 100 years. Sign stealing has. Sign stealing is legal. Electronic sign stealing is not.
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Actually.....
"In 1897, George Stallings, the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had Morgan Murphy, a backup catcher, hide in a clubhouse beyond center field with a binocular and a telegraph that he used to alert Stallings to what pitch the opposing catcher was calling"
So, technically it has
I, personally, see a pretty easy line to draw on sign stealing. If the person stealing the signs isn't in the field of play, then it's cheating. What the punishments are or should be, or how angry other fans should get, that's all beyond me
But I can't imagine that in the 120+ years since the Phillies used the telegraph to try to steal signs, that the only other times it's happened were the '51 Giants and the BoSux & Astros recently. Maybe I'm just too cynical or jaded, but just a hunch that it's not as rare as some would like it to be