[Disestablishmentarian]

isn’t 9 kinda young to be chewing tobacco ?

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Perhaps.

But just to be on the safe side I passed the same admonition on to my daughter's T-Ball team (ages 5-7) when I became the coach.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Perhaps you are rinsing out dirt from the field of play! (Like you don’t swallow while you play?)