How to Cheat in Sports: Professional Tricks Exposed!

by Scott Ostler

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811858537
• ISBN13: 9780811858533
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Funny, insightful & surprising

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

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!