Like with many lifelong Houston Astros fans, Tony Adams’s first reaction to the news that his favorite baseball team had cheated during the 2017 season was denial. He simply refused to believe that the players he admired so much would stoop to illegally stealing opponents’ signs and relaying them to batters in real time by banging on a trash can. It all sounded too ridiculous. Then Adams discovered a viral YouTube video tearing across social media that purported to offer audible proof that the Astros had done just that on...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 30, 2020 14:24 UTC