The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime - Hardcover

Turbow, Jason; Duca, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375424695 ISBN 13: 9780375424694

Publisher: Pantheon, 2010

Synopsis

A behind-the-scenes analysis of professional baseball's hidden rules reveals the impact of unwritten codes of conduct, retaliatory behaviors and cheating, providing dramatic examples as committed by such figures as Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Don Drysdale.

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Review

"Delicious . . . Entertaining . . . "The Baseball Codes" reads like a lab report by a psychologist who has been observing hostile toddlers whack one another with plastic shovels in a sandbox."
Bruce Weber, "The New York Times Book Review
"
A frankly incredible book a history and analysis of baseball s insular culture of unwritten rules, protocols and superstitions, assembled over the course of ten years . . . I can say without hesitation that this is one of the all-time greats a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Glenn McDonald, NPR
If baseball players adhere to a series of informal doctrines, then consider Turbow the ultimate code breaker . . . Turbow pulls back the curtain and breaks through the game s shroud of secrecy to deliver a grand slam of a book.
Mike Householder, Associated Press
A remarkably well researched book, filled with intricate details of plays from the past 100 years.
Larry Getlen, "New York Post"
Turbow and Duca have filled a void with this entertaining, revealing survey of the varied, sometimes inscrutable unwritten rules that govern the way baseball is played by the pros.
"Booklist"
A highly entertaining read . . . A comprehensive, sometimes hilarious guide to perhaps a misunderstood aspect of our national pastime.
"Publishers Weekly""

"Delicious . . . Entertaining . . . The Baseball Codes reads like a lab report by a psychologist who has been observing hostile toddlers whack one another with plastic shovels in a sandbox."
--Bruce Weber, The New York Times Book Review

"A frankly incredible book--a history and analysis of baseball's insular culture of unwritten rules, protocols and superstitions, assembled over the course of ten years . . . I can say without hesitation that this is one of the all-time greats--a first-ballot Hall of Famer."
--Glenn McDonald, NPR

"If baseball players adhere to a series of informal doctrines, then consider Turbow the ultimate code breaker . . . Turbow pulls back the curtain and breaks through the game's shroud of secrecy to deliver a grand slam of a book."
--Mike Householder, Associated Press

"A remarkably well researched book, filled with intricate details of plays from the past 100 years."
--Larry Getlen, New York Post

"Turbow and Duca have filled a void with this entertaining, revealing survey of the varied, sometimes inscrutable unwritten rules that govern the way baseball is played by the pros."
--Booklist

"A highly entertaining read . . . A comprehensive, sometimes hilarious guide to perhaps a misunderstood aspect of our national pastime."
--Publishers Weekly

About the Author

JASON TURBOW’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated.com, Slam Magazine, Popular Science, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he is a regular contributor to Giants Magazine and A’s Magazine. He lives in the Bay Area.

MICHAEL DUCA was the first chairman of the board of Bill James’s Project Scoresheet and has written for Sports-Ticker, Giants Today in the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Associated Press. He works in the office of the commissioner as an official scorer, and for mlb.com. He lives in the Bay Area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0375424695
• ISBN 13: 9780375424694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304