It wasn’t more than a couple of years ago that the Red Sox were found guilty of electronically stealing signs from the Yankees. So what have the Yanks done to prevent sign stealing from happening again?
Frank Crosetti was a slick-fielding infielder who played shortstop and third base for the Yanks between 1932 and 1948. He spent another 20 years, between 1949 and 1968, primarily as the third base coach for the Bronx Bombers. Remarkably, he was on the field for 23 fall classics, of which New York won an astounding 17.
During his baseball playing career “The Crow” mastered the Hidden-Ball Trick, which he picked up while with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League in the late 1920s — some think from teammate-turned-umpire Babe Pinelli.