Pitch Tipping

I had never before today heard of "pitch tipping." The concept is fascinating to me, and will surely motivate me to research the history of this practice in major league baseball.

EPSN published an online article about details from Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts' book "A-Rod" that were released by the New York Daily News. Aside from the expected steroids headline-attracting points, one of the first was "pitch tipping." Here's how the ESPN article / Roberts alleges A-Rod cheated:

A-Rod "pitch tipped" when he played for the Rangers by letting opponents at the plate know which pitch was coming in lopsided games. A-Rod expected players he helped would reciprocate when he was having an off night and needed to get his batting average up.

Wow. I wish I had thought of that. Well, I wish I were a major league baseball player and THEN had thought of that.

More (potentially) to come.