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Friday 16 October 2015

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to, San Francisco Giants start-
ing pitcher Jake Peavy works Bode Miller
against a San Diego Padres won’t compete
batter during the first inning
of a baseball game in San Di- in 2015-16
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In this photo provided by Pentaphoto Unit-
Associated Press ed States’ Bode Miller crashes during the
men’s super-G competition at the alpine
California to skiing world championships, Thursday,
big-league Feb. 5, 2015, in Beaver Creek, Colo. Miller
ballplayers: did not finish the race.
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JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cali-
fornia lawmakers have
taken the first step toward
accomplishing something
Major League Baseball
could never do: Stop play-
ers from stuffing those big
wads of chewing tobacco
into their mouths during
games.
With Gov. Jerry Brown sign-
ing a bill earlier this week
banning the use of smoke-
less tobacco in all Califor-
nia ballparks, the practice
now seems headed to-
ward the sport’s endan-
gered species list.
California has five of Major
League teams and own-
ers themselves have been
pressing for a ban for years.
Last May they got one in
San Francisco.
In August they got another
in Boston. And when Brown
signed Assembly Bill 768 on
Sunday one was already in
the works for Los Angeles.
Major League Baseball
still needs buy-in from the
players, however, because
the statewide ban that
takes effect before next
season has no provision for
enforcement.q