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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!)

No, the salted ones. Unsalted are gross. Unless you cook them with
cream of mushroom soup. For a true gourmet treat, shell the
sunflowers, simmer them with cream of mushroom soup in a crock pot for
8 hours, then remove and stuff large mushroom caps with them.
>
> 2. Are they spitting all the time because of the salty sunflower seeds?
>
No, they spit because they're playing baseball.
>
> 3. Do I assume correctly that chewing tobacco consumption is way down
> among pro ball players?

Yes, except for the special chewing tobacco available from Balco labs.
>
> 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?
>
Yes. Why else would a non-baseball player want to suck on sunflower
seeds? -aem