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> Questions, most important ones listed first:
>
> 1. Do MLB players eat the unsalted kind (sunflower seeds) during games?
> (I'd get sick from too much salt!)
>
> 2. Are they spitting all the time because of the salty sunflower seeds?
>
>
> 3. Do I assume correctly that chewing tobacco consumption is way down
> among pro ball players?
>
> 4. A few hours after I sucked on 20 or so salted sunflower shells, I
> had something resembling a heartburn and I had to spit out a lot of
> saliva. Is this common?
>
> Thanks.

Yes, it is an odd question. With that said, in the days I used to
attend around 80-90 games a year, i used to eat seeds all the time at
the games, it was almost a ritual. Salted. I love the salted ones;
their spitting out the shells. When the season starts your toungue gets
sore from all that salt but quickly gets used to it. I used to eat a
lot of pumpkin seeds too.