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The Truth About Chewing, Spitting, Other Nasty Verbs

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From conclusion of AP story about Bud Selig’s toothless effort to ban tobacco use in Major League Baseball:

↵↵Baseball banned tobacco use in the minor leagues in 1993, but it is still common in the majors.

↵↵Uh, it’s still common in the minors, too. There’s a lot of winking and nudging, but everybody who works in the minors knows that something like a third of the minor leaguers are chewing and dipping. Just saying.

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