Timeline -- Part I. Histories of cheating in baseball -- Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and cheating : blame it on the pitchers / Steven Gietschier -- Cheating versus gamesmanship : ethical relativism in baseball? / George Gmelch -- "This is not a cultural issue" : the Astros' (and baseball's) willingness to overlook domestic violence / Katherine Murray -- Round up the usual suspects : cheating in baseball / Richard Crepeau -- Part II. The scandal unfolds -- Finally, a fun baseball scandal / Will Leitch -- What is the sound of one bat slapping? reading the Houston Astros' trash can / Roberta Newman -- Blame is a tangled mess in Astros sign-stealing scandal / Evan Drellich -- Part III. Fans and the scandal -- Interview with a bang counter : a Q&A with Tony Adams -- Reckoning with tainted love : what the Astros scandal reveals of sports fandom / Matthew Klugman -- "To learn baseball" : a transatlantic dialogue on the Astros and the American ways of winning / Michael Hinds and Joseph Rivera -- Part IV. The scandal and its ethical dilemmas -- Baseball has no love for truth tellers / Mitchell Nathanson -- Bad apples or bad Astros? collective responsibility and the perils of team loyalty / Erin Tarver -- From protector to whistleblower : being a "good" teammate when cheating occurs / Allison R. Levin and Matthew Staker -- Part V. Technology and the scandal -- Stealing signs : technology, surveillance and policing inside and outside the game / Dain TePoel and Eileen Narcotta-Welp -- The spreadsheet in the garden : analytics and the sign-stealing scandal / Jonathan Silverman -- "Defendant Houston Astros" : Michael Bolsinger vs. the Houston Astros
Summary:
"The volume examines the Astros' 2017 World Series win, which was tarnished (but not invalidated) by their systematic sign-stealing, for which several managers but no players lost their jobs. The volume editor has enlisted over a dozen contributors to approach the subject from many historical, gendered, legal, symbolic, personal, and analytical perspectives, with essays delving into the impact of a winning-above-all attitude from a team run by a former McKinsey consultant; the significance of the team picking up a pitcher who had been suspended for domestic abuse; the context of other recent sport scandals; and a deep analysis of the MLB's report on the scandal, among many other topics"-- Provided by publisher. "How a Texas baseball team's cheating strategy changed major league baseball"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports
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