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This particular brew consists of pine tar and rosin. A sticky situation, as it were.

Only a year after the Houston Astros sign-stealing scheme damaged Major League Baseball and cast further aspersion on the league’s ability to police itself, the next self-inflicted wound may already in progress. And once again it’s going to be caused by the game’s unwritten codes.

Pitchers have always used a bit of the tacky stuff on their fingers. This...

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