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Message: [QUOTE="EdSaid, post: 3561237, member: 10651"] It was funny to watch some freshmen baseball players try chew for the first time. Some swallowed juice and tobacco and puked. Some turned green. Some could never get the hang of spitting. It was kind of a freshmen hazing thing. I made sure the upper classmen worked it out with the new players in the fall. In the 70's & 80's the whole coaching staff and maybe 75% of the kids chewed. Had to have rules about not chewing on buses, planes and restaurants. Constantly heard complaints about kids chewing in class. Thinking back it was gross. I stopped chewing in the late 80's. The NCAA stopped chewing in the early/mid 90's, but didn't include the umpires for another year. I coached baseball for a long time, but its been a long time since I've coached. Lot of crazy things. Some made no sense. Some kids that didn't chew spit more than the kids that did. Go figure Pro baseball banned it in the minor leagues in 1993, but didn't ban it in the MLB until 2016 [/QUOTE]