Before I tick forward I wanted to point out this tidbit from Charlton's Baseball Chronology for February 16, 1950:
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San Francisco Seals (PCL) owner Paul Fagan starts a controversy by announcing that the team will ban the sale of peanuts in the shell. “We lose five cents for every bag of peanuts sold at the ball park, That’s $20,000 a year.” Fagan complains that it costs more the clean the shells up than he makes on a bag of peanuts. “The goober has got to go.” When fans, rival owners and newspapers come to the defense of the peanut, Fagan relents, saying, “I know when I’m wrong.”
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GOOD. Too bad Fagan's idea didn't persist. The way people eat peanuts at baseball games is disgusting.