baseball chewing tobacco history Lawmaker seeks to ban at all California games The Interwoven History of Baseball

Its not surprising that chewing tobacco has become identified with baseball

But tobacco chewing faded quickly among the general population over the next decade, after German microbiologist Robert Koch showed that spitting contributed to the spread of tuberculosis

OK, dont panic its not a quizthat was really just one of those rhetorical questions

Sportswriter Henry Chadwick, among others, promoted baseball in the press in the nineteenth century, but a new generation of journalists was on the beat by the 1900s

Lucky for me. Dews played with the Cardinals farm team

No one needed to caution me about the dangers of the stuff, because one pinch was all I needed to know Id never try it again