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| How to Cheat in Sports: Professional Tricks Exposed! | 
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| Author: Scott Ostler
Creators: Rick Reilly, Arthur Mount
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $2.89
You Save: $12.06 (81%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 58234
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0811858537
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.0207
EAN: 9780811858533
ASIN: 0811858537
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Product Description
It's no secret that pro athletes cheat. But how exactly do they do it? Original interviews with former professional athletes and coaches reveal step-by-step instructions and technical drawings on how to throw a spitball, become an unblockable linebacker, foul a jumpshooter without getting caught, and other ways to gain an advantage over opponents. Hilarious accounts from insiders place these trade secrets in context, divulging what really happens in baseball, football, basketball, NASCAR, hockey, and even bowling, horseshoes, and kickball. When athletes say they give 110%, How to Cheat in Sports explains the extra 10%.
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| Customer Reviews:
Funny, insightful & surprising May 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was surprised by how ubiquitous cheating is in pro sports, but Scott Ostler names names and gives step-by-step instructions on how it's done. Pretty useful for pick-up game players who can now identify the sneaky ways that opponents might try to get the best of them. He covers football, basketball, baseball [bat corking is real!], bowling, even golf and water polo. Where does it end? Not kickball, he's got a cheat for that, too. Oh and horseshoes for cryin' out loud. :)
A fun book to read and Scott's writing is humorous and engaging. Rick Reilly's foreword is a hoot.
Oh and.. shame on you, Bill Romanowski, shame! [find out about his cheats in the football chapter].
A darkly entertaining read for our darkly entertaining times May 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You don't need a trainer named Anderson to inject you with 'roids in order to cheat in sports. For as long as there has been sport, there has been cheating. In fact, some historians believe cheating predates sport by several hundred millennia. In any case, this book contains tips from some of the finest athletes to ever give themselves a bit of a competitive edge - from Bill Romanowski to Charles Barkley. It exposes many lesser-known sports cheats that athletes have been using for decades to get ahead (like how to win a jump ball), and details exactly how more commonly known cheats are performed (like how to cork a bat). The book is more than just the anarchist's cookbook to pulling a fast one on the refs or umpires, however, fusing a timely topic with some genuinely funny commentary to create a wonderful alchemy of information and sarcasm. The perfect bedtime read!
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