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The Ancient Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry Gets a High-Tech Boost

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Who would have thought musty old Fenway Park, the 105-year-old dowager of the Back Bay, would be a battleground for technological espionage?

In exposing a sign-stealing operation by the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees did not find evidence within the manually operated scoreboard in left field, along the Pesky Pole in right, or in the pattern of the neon lights on the Citgo sign above Kenmore Square. They found it on the Apple Watch of an assistant athletic trainer.

The Red Sox have countered by saying that the Yankees have used a YES Network camera to spy on them, which the Yankees quickly denied.