![]() ![]() “I ripped up some black (licorice) vines and put them into a Red Man pouch. “I was desperate to chew tobacco like those guys,” Field said recently. Once, Nelson noticed 12-year-old bat boy Todd Field dipping his fingers into what looked like a pouch of Red Man chewing tobacco. The idea for packing shredded gum in a pouch actually occurred to Nelson earlier during his three-season stint from 1975-77 with the independent minor league team. I could sell that idea.’ Maybe an inning later, he said, ‘OK, what do you want to call it?’ Out of the air I said, ‘I don’t know, how about Big League Chew?’” “‘We’d look like tough guys, but wouldn’t make ourselves ill.’ Jim’s eyes got as big as baseballs. “One day,” Nelson recalled, “Jim asked me in the bullpen, ‘Did you ever chew?’ I said, ‘For maybe 30 seconds.’ He said ‘Yeah, me too.’ A minute later I said to him, ‘What would you think of shredded gum in a pouch?’”īouton looked perplexed. ![]() Beneath their feet was well-worn artificial turf that, in several spots, was permeated with an unsightly brown stain from tobacco spit that had settled in its fibers over the years. ![]()
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