Players setting bad example, writes ex-Mets' manager Bobby Valentine
(NEWSER) - Baseball’s Opening Day means “hope and excitement,” but it also means the return of a “blot on our sport”: chewing tobacco on the field, writes Bobby Valentine. “For many of us, it is simply part of the sport,” but the MLB—and those who love it—can no longer afford that. “Smokeless tobacco causes oral cancer, mouth lesions, gum disease, and tooth decay,” it’s associated with “heart attacks and pancreatic cancer,” and it may lead to smoking, the former Mets manager notes in the New York Times . More»
