McDowell: Late '80s Sox Used Camera To Steal Signs

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(670 The Score) The floodgates are opening when it comes to revelations of cheating across MLB.

After the fallout of the Astros' sign-stealing scandal continued with Mets manager Carlos Beltran resigning Thursday, former White Sox pitcher Jack McDowell on Friday revealed the organization used a camera to steal signs in the late 1980s.

McDowell also claimed that manager Tony La Russa was the original orchestrator of the scheme, though McDowell's tenure didn't overlap with La Russa's.

"We had a system in the old Comiskey Park in the late 1980s -- the Gatorade sign out in center had a light, there was a toggle switch in the manager's office and camera zoomed in on the catcher," McDowell said on Mac Attack on WFNZ in Charlotte. "I'm gonna whistle blow this now, because I'm getting tired of this crap. There was that, Tony La Russa is the one who put it in. He was also the head of the first team where everyone was doing steroids. Yet, he's still in the game making half a million, you know? No one is going to go after that. It's just, this stuff is getting old where they target certain guys and let other people off the hook."

McDowell pitched for the White Sox from 1987-'94, winning the Cy Young award in 1993. La Russa managed the White Sox from 1979-'86.

The White Sox weren't particularly successful in the 1980s. Their lone playoff appearance during that decade came in 1983, when they won their division and lost in the American League Championship Series. The White Sox also won the division and then bowed out in the ALCS in 1993.