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    Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating

    In their new book, Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating, nationally-recognized baseball historians and best-selling authors, Daniel R. Levitt and Mark Armour, have written the definitive history of cheating in baseball, and deliver an engrossing chronicle of America’s pastime and the players, coaches, groundskeepers and management who have sought any advantage to win at all costs. Meticulously researched, Intentional Balk is a comprehensive look at every form of baseball cheating, its origins, its practitioners, and how cheating has been treated within the game. Some of the stories are humorous, others are serious. Many rule-breakers are in the…