The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow, with Michael Duca — This book opens with the timeless image of Nolan Ryan, then 46, putting Chicago’s Robin Ventura in a headlock after the latter had charged the mound following a hit-by-pitch in 1993, an event that was actually the culmination of many seasons worth of bad blood between the two clubs and had little to do with the 26-year-old Ventura. In The Baseball Codes, authors Jason Turbow and Michael Duca examine some of the unwritten rules that quietly govern America’s pastime, from keeping silent about a no-hitter in progress to stealing signs to — as Ventura found out — how to really take one for the team.
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