But the truth is that what the Giants did wasn t even against the rules. It wasn t until 10 years later, in 1961, that baseball put a rule into effect forbidding the use of mechanical devices to intercept signs. It s also probably true that a number of other teams were doing the same thing just not as well as Durocher and the Giants were. Some are saying that Durocher tarnished baseball itself. But really, without Durocher s cunning, the 1951 miracle wouldn t be a treasured part of baseball lore.
Professional baseball is a cutthroat business.
It s kind of silly to expect gentility. I d want Leo Durocher on our little boys and girls side. He d even up the odds against those cheating foreign coaches with their falsified birth certificates and their human growth hormone injections. The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company.