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Stuff Your Peanuts and Cracker Jack, MLB

May one wish that fans should make no concessions — literally?

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Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Chris Taylor returns to the dugout after hitting a grand slam at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif., June 15, 2023.

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From the fans’ grandstand perspective, the ideal professional-baseball experience has always gone beyond mere cheering of Texas leaguers, runs scored, double plays, stolen bases, and walk-off home runs. And now, in 2023, of watching stupefied as religious-bigotry groups are honored by team ownership.

Real live baseball-game attendance is also about the stomach — about strapping on the feedbag at the ballpark to enjoy a caloric tsunami. And about the liver, that never-sleeping organ anticipating a few pints of suds once it is through the turnstile.

Jack Fowler

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Jack Fowler

Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.

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