MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig wants to rid Major League Baseball of chewing tobacco.
Even though it's ingrained in the culture of the game and is evident anytime a player steps on the sticky floor of a big-league dugout, Selig hopes the time has finally come to rid MLB of the unhealthy habit.
In a letter to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids on Thursday, Selig told the group's president he believes "smokeless tobacco should be banned at the Major League level."
In order to make that happen, the owners have to negotiate with the players' union and have the ban added to the next collective bargaining agreement.
"In the current round of bargaining with the …
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