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I'd never smoked a cigarette or marijuana. I rarely even had a beer. It was 1973 and, for whatever reason, I wasn't one of those high school kids who chasing the next little buzz or that elusive high. Plus, baseball players caught smoking or drinking at our school got kicked off the team back then. No questions. No appeals. There wasn't a rule banning chewing tobacco. My mom made my rules, however, and chewing tobacco would have violated one of them. I knew big leaguers dipped and chewed, but I figured they did lots of things that would get me in trouble if I tried them. Then, one early evening during a high school game, a guy pulled out a bag of Red Man loose leaf tobacco. I didn't know what it was supposed to do for a guy, but I was nervous and struggling at the plate and ... I took some ...

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