BOSTON — Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is expecting baseball players will initially push back at Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s proposal to ban snuff and chewing tobacco in city ballfields, including Fenway.
But the 48-year-old ESPN analyst said Wednesday that he believes players will eventually come around to the idea, just as they had done when smoking was banned in ballparks years ago.
Schilling joined Walsh at a South Boston baseball diamond to talk about the proposal. If approved, it would make Boston the second U.S. city to ban so-called “smokeless tobacco” products. San Francisco became the first earlier this year.
Schilling also shared his experience of being treated for mouth cancer earlier this year, which he’s blamed on years of chewing tobacco use.
