By Steve Ginsburg
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cheating in baseball has been a tradition since the days of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth - generations before Major League Baseball confirmed that the St. Louis Cardinals are being investigated for possibly hacking in to the computers of the Houston Astros.
The practice has been romanticized because of the many uncomplicated - and often hilarious - ways to beat the system, whether by using a telescope from the center field stands to steal a catcher's signs or filling a bat with cork to hit the ball out of the stratosphere.