What are professional baseball players chewing, and why do they keep spitting it out?

Question

I knew that they used to chew tobacco until it was banned or considered a health risk. But what are they chewing now, and what is it for?

Answer 1

SUNFLOWER SEEDS-THEY SPIT OUT THE SHELLS. IT HELPS KEEP THEIR MOUTH FROM DRYING OUT.

Answer 2

Chewing tobacco has been banned?? I don't think so. That awful brown juice dripping down their faces from their mouths and their spitting orange brown saliva do not come from bubble gum. Many chew and in doing so, set a poor example for our kids.

Have to call them as I see them.

Answer 3

Sunflower seeds, sometimes chewing tobacco, and a lot of times spit. A lot of athletes spit their saliva out during the game.

Answer 4

sunflower seeds, chewing tobacco, and gum. Chewing tobacco was not banned I think it was just frowned upon, because it's gross and unhealthy and too many kids were trying it.

Answer 5

A lot of them chew sunflower seeds.

Answer 6

Probably Sunflower seeds

Answer 7

i hope its only sunflower seeds...but i also like when they chew the pink bubblegum and blow bubbles while they're on the field between innings...it makes them look like a bunch of neighborhood kids playing stick ball in the back yard

Answer 8

chewing tobacco

Answer 9

Sunflower seeds.

Answer 10

Sunflower seeds. They are spittiing out the shells and eating the kernals

Answer 11

sunflower seeds and tobacco