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Baseball and peanuts go together like peanut butter and jelly. But peanuts don’t go well with the 1.5 million Americans who are allergic to them. Peanut dust and shells drifting across the seats and floors of baseball stadiums provide no comfort to those who are at risk of anaphylactic shock from just a small amount of exposure to peanuts. A few major league baseball venues have been kind enough to set aside nut-free zones for a few games a season so that fans, often young kids, can enjoy America’s pastime without worry. Skyboxes, executive lounges, or a section of seats are cleaned and set aside as safe zones. The Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, and Washington Nationals are among the teams that have thus enabled parents to take their peanut-allergic kids to the ballgame.

Written by ltao

March 21st, 2008 at 2:32 am

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