OT: Smoking and Stadiums

[sox83cubs84]

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My worst experience with smoking at stadiums came multiple times in the 1990s, back in the old Family Section at Wrigley Field. The regular usher up there, a nice old guy named Ray, used to man the rope between the family section and the main bleachers. Ray was known to routinely look the other way on the rules; for example, allowing friends and others to sit in the family section even though they didn't have tickets there. Anyway, the ramp that connected the non-smoking family section and the anything goes bleachers was where I would often play during games and BP. Bleacher fans sometimes wanted to smoke...illegal in the seating areas...so Ray would send the smokers to stand with me on the ramp! Ray's willingness to ignore stadium rules to take care of buddies finally caught up with him in the early 2000s as caught in the act of not enforcing stadium rules by a security supervisor, the supe dressed him down publicly in front of the fans. Ray quit after that public humiliation, but got his job back the next year...but he was no longer assigned to the outfield family section/bleacher gate, which doesn't exist anymore.

Dave Miedema

[lon lewis]

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One of my favorite Giants photos is from the 1984 postcard set. It shows Duane Kuiper posed next to the no smoking sign in the Giants dugout. Kuiper who was well known at the time to smoke both in the dugout and in the tunnel leading to the clubhouses during games. The sign says in effect no smoking in the dugout, on the field or in the bullpen areas when the fans are present- pretty standard for the NL teams at the time- the Giants posted version has the tag line "this means you Kuiper!" I always have a laugh whenever I see it again.

[gingi79]

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I remember my dad smoking at Shea in the 80's and walking through smoke every time I passed through the tunnels to my seat. One rain delay, Shea looked like Jimi Hendrix opened for Phish and the Grateful Dead.

Oh and "Nails" always looked like he stuffed an entire tobacco plant under his front lip.

[camarokids]

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I would not doubt something like the Dick Allen pic below has happened before with players in the stadiums. I have a Devil Rays media pic of Canseco and his eyes are beet red. He looks stoned in the pic.....

[both-teams-played-hard]

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Happy April 20th to all you god-fearing and America-loving hippies!

[RaiderNationPDX]

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Happy to bring this thread up to the top! The Snake his prime:

Oh yeah, The Snake is Ken Stabler for any of you that didn't know! This picture is from a late 1970's Sports Illustrated.

A-mazing. Almost brings a tear to my eye. Raiders need this kind of fire (no pun intended) again.

[trsent]

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Happy to bring this thread up to the top! The Snake his prime:



Oh yeah, The Snake is Ken Stabler for any of you that didn't know! This picture is from a late 1970's Sports Illustrated.

[both-teams-played-hard]

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Can you identify these players for me? I am not much into vintage. Thanks.

Dick Allen, Billy Martin.

[frikativ54]

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Can you identify these players for me? I am not much into vintage. Thanks.

[both-teams-played-hard]

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[LastingsMilledge85]

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Tons of players chew tobacco and when the Mes one the division Most of the team smoked cigars. There's a picture of David Wright holding a Champs sign and smoking a cigar.

[jbsportstuff]

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I remember my many trips to Riverfront in the early to mid 70's when I was a kid and I always associated cigarette smoke with the ballpark. I'm sure that it was legal to do it....

One Bengals game..a COLD Bengals game...my father had two full cups of beer spilled on him. The drunken fools didn't even apologize.

[joelsabi]

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Very unique picture

Jason Werth victory cigar as divisional champs.

[LastingsMilledge85]

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Tons of players chew tobacco and when the Mes one the division Most of the team smoked cigars. There's a picture of David Wright holding a Champs sign and smoking a cigar.

[karamaxjoe]

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I would love to see pics. Were cigarette pack pockets commonplace at one time for MLB uniforms?

Here's a couple of past auctions of Earl Weaver jerseys with the sewn in pocket for cigs

http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=31069&aucsearch=Earl%20Weaver&AucListType=closed&TitleDesc=0&period=

http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=50780&aucsearch=Earl%20Weaver&AucListType=closed&TitleDesc=0&period=