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Article: Coach planted seed early
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- Cary Grove Countryside (IL)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2000
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E verytime I see an athlete chomping on a piece of gum, I cringe. I think of the danger of sprinting while chewing a glob of sticky stuff, and I feel it's only a matter of time before I witness a mass of Fruit Stripe clogging a kid's esophagus while driving the lane.
Chewing sunflower seeds on the softball diamond, however, is entirely different. I think every baseball and softball player - young or old, boy or girl - should have to learn the art of eating seeds.
It's not just cracking open the shells one at a time and eating the seeds with your fingers. It's about ...