Summer’s coming up fast - schools are ending, vacations are beginning, and many more people will be heading out to the ballpark. Should be fun!
Unless you have peanut allergies. For in that case, being taken out the ol’ ball game could mean being taken out - permanently.
But baseball fans in St. Louis who suffer from such symptoms will no longer have to sweat it out in the stands, as a couple of area stadiums are establishing peanut-free zones.
KSDK-TV cracks open news that the St. Louis Cardinals & the minor league River City Rascals will offer seating sections where peanuts are prohibited. The Rascals have already designated section 109 at T.R. Hughes Ballpark as peanut-free - but only on Wednesdays.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals are even more cautious about a permanent peanut-free area. The noble experiment will only be tried once this season - on July 21st - where section 328 will be without nuts.
Unless any of these folks show up.
8:21 pm on May 28th, 2008
Not to get too serious, but this is great news. My niece has not been to a Cubs game for years because of her allergy. I took her to the police/firefighter game at Wrigley last year, and we had to keep moving because of people eating peanuts. If she even smells them, her eyes swell up, throat closes and we have to rush her to the ER.
9:50 pm on May 28th, 2008
My son has a peanut allergy. As a teacher, I used to think parents were just being overdramatic when they would make a big deal about their kid’s peanut allergy. Then my own son was born and he had a bad reaction to peanuts.
It was scarier than I can even explain. We were told that he is lucky to be alive… all because of a stupid peanut. I take extra precautions at all times with him now. I have to check every food he eats, and they have signs up in his classroom and on the fridge at his preschool that warn of his allergy.
I think stuff like this is diagnosed more now, but in the old days people would just die from it and they’d put down that the cause was unknown. I am glad people are taking steps to help those who suffer from it. And yes, I did say suffer. You don’t know what a difficult thing it can be until you’ve experienced. There are nuts everywhere!