“Cheating has been the path of progress, in baseball or life itself. The authors of Intentional Balk may raise an eyebrow at this infraction or that one, but they are not moralists. For them, play is serious fun and so is their book.”
–John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball
“From fake foul tips to dugout disguises, sign stealing to sticky stuff, Mark Armour and Daniel Levitt don’t miss a trick — and that’s saying something when the subject is baseball, where rule-bending has always been part of the game. Armour and Levitt teamed up for the definitive history of the baseball front office with In Pursuit of Pennants, and now they’ve written the definitive history of cheating in our national pastime. With meticulous research and a gripping narrative, Armour and Levitt give us a deeper understanding of the nuances between clever gamesmanship and an unfair edge — and, more broadly, between right and wrong.”
— Tyler Kepner, National baseball columnist for The New York Times, author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches