I was involved with Little League 12 of those 75 years - four as a player, and eight as a coach on this very diamond, in Ridgewood, N.J. Like coaches today, we had to start with the basics ...

Chew, spit, repeat: Why baseball players from Little League to MLB love sunflower seeds. Anthony Gharib. USA TODAY. ... fans and other players started to pick up on Jackson’s habit.