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A few years back we had a team that was very good at stealing signs in our state Legion program. When they got to the State Tournament that information was relayed to the Legion Representative, and he actually stopped the game and came on the field to tell the umpires to "stop this immediately". The umpires told him, "Leave the field immediately or be removed, and if you persist WE will leave." He said it was unsportsmanlike to steal signs, and we said, "Then tell the coaches - ALL of the coaches - to tell their catchers to do a better job of hiding signs."
Stealing signs is as old as the game - and there are ways of doing it that are acceptable (not with binoculars from the centerfield scoreboard, as was tried at Wrigley Field). My only hope when I played the game was that when the sign-stealer told me "curveball" he was right!
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