By Doug Austin
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According to an article in the New York Times, one Major League Baseball team has defined a new way of playing “hardball” with the competition – hacking into the network of another team to capture closely guarded information about players.
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Front-office personnel for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, are under investigation by the F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors, accused of hacking into an internal network of my…