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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 3560638, member: 7511"] Tobacco chewing, and spitting, have been synonymous with baseball since the game was invented. Tobacco chewing was only banned in the minor leagues as of 1993. But it continued to be allowed under MLB’s collective bargaining agreement up until the new CBA in 2016, which only banned tobacco chewing for players entering MLB after 2016. Essentially, older players who chewed tobacco were “grandfathered” in to allow tobacco chewing. Subsequently, a number of cities around the country banned all tobacco use at sports arenas by both fans and players, effectively eliminating tobacco use at ballparks. The death of HOF player Tony Gwynn was a watershed event in the elimination of tobacco chewing. Gwynn, a lifetime user of smokeless tobacco died of salivary gland cancer in 2014. [/QUOTE]