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Well, thank you Sam Sears and good morning everyone.
Welcome to peeking inside the Great Bind.
Today he's back.
The good professor, Mr. Bill Sproul, is going to join us.
We're going to talk about all things cuisine at Maisley Baseball Ball Parks.
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as well.
Everything's going to digital.
It appears in that ever-developing story in Canada as recent as this morning, where the whole Toronto network might be bought off.
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Kind of bringing in a good professor, Mr. Bill Sprow.
Good morning, Bill.
It's been a long time and how are you doing, my friend?
We're doing well, Jimmy.
Always pleased to be with you.
Got another fun story to share today.
Well, Bill, it's good to have you back.
It's been probably three or four weeks now with everything going on in medical situations, but I know our audience is glad to have you back in the fold, and we'll kind of slowly get back into a regular rotation.
And Bill, this time of year, 4th of July, the summer, the barbecue season, the cookout season, everybody's into summer foods.
Nobody wants to cook at home anymore.
Then we're going to circle to food.
cuisine at Major League Baseball Ball Parks.
I watch a lot of Major League Baseball Network, and I think every once a week or something they have a certain cook come in from every different ballpark.
This is something that we don't talk about that much, but every ballpark has their own particular cuisine, and it's amazing how far things have gone from the basic hot dog, especially this is the gourmet, this is the private clubs inside ballparks.
You got a neat story on that, Bill.
We're going to spend about 12 or so minutes on it, and then we're going to get ready for our show next week about the CBC.
But tell us about baseball parks and cuisine, which has become somewhat more interesting in the ballgame.
What types of food can get us certain ballparks?
It is a fun story, and I guess it was fun kind of digging into the story.
We started thinking about it, but in the early days of baseball, that's kind of before 1900,
There were no organized concession stands, and the fans primarily bought their own food or purchased some basic local fare from vendors that were outside the ballpark or would go up and down the stands.
The original menu was ham and cheese sandwiches, some ice cream, peanuts, and lemonade.
That was really before 1900.
And the peanuts
where would you regard it as a fairly cheap food for the lower class or livestock?
But they became an early favor to baseball fans because of low cost and the ease of shelling, so easy to look after.
And hot dogs really weren't introduced at ball parks until the early 1900s.
And they just said, so you kind of look back, well, when did these hot dogs, when did they come abode?
It said that the Frankfurter
was developed in Germany, in fact, in Frankfurt, Germany, in the mid-1800s.
And it was introduced in the U.S.
in the late 1890s as pork sausages, or German immigrants called them Dachau sausages.
And someone one time joked, I can't spell Dachau, so we'll call them hot dogs.
Now, there's several stories as to why and when these sausages were put in buns and became known as hot dogs.
One of them, it was their first introduced as the sausages in a bun at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
And another story I read about when it was a German butcher, Charles Feldman, began selling hot sausages
from his wagon on Coney Island in the 1870s.
And he'll put a restaurant in a beer garden on Coney Island.
He found that his sausages, the sausages were too hot, so he put them in a barn in the late 1890s.
Now, one of his employees, Nathan Henwerger, was said to have left
uh... phelmen phelmen in the early nineteen hundreds and opened his own uh... stand to sell hotdogs on cony island uh... and they became known as nathan's famous hotdogs and in nineteen sixteen nathan started the annual hotdog eating contest on july fourth on cony island and uh... that was just last weekend joey chestnut uh... one
eight sixty-six hot dogs in ten minutes uh... to win that uh... eighteen mustard belt for the best hot dog eatery he didn't think he didn't make his record his record was set a couple years going with eight at seventy nine seventy six in ten minutes uh... but now the baseball story is in nineteen one at the polar grounds in new york city it was a cool day and the uh...
Ice cream sales were poor and everybody wanted a hot sausage.
So Henry Stevens, he was the vendor at the hot dog, at the polo grounds that day.
He ran out of wax paper that he would serve as hot sausages on.
And so he sent a helper out to get rolls and the vendor sliced them open and put the sausages inside and they called them hot dogs.
So that's when it really started, 1901.
person attributed.
Now, you start to look at other foods at the time.
Cracker Jacks.
They were up corn makers out of Chicago were experimenting.
They added molasses and peanuts and first off for them at the at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
And the brothers heard someone who was eating these sticky, sticky products and said, Cracker Jack.
And that was a frame term for awesome.
The brothers trademarked the expression and they were introduced in ballparks in the late 1890s.
And probably everybody this listening can remember the famous song, take me out to the ball game.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks.
I don't care if I ever get back.
Let me root, root, root.
That was in 1908 that that song was introduced.
Beer started to be introduced in the early 1900s.
It's draft beer.
using local and regional beers.
First started in St.
Louis with the Anheuser Busch Budweiser beer.
Coca-Cola, it originally started as a soda fountain drink, and it wasn't until the early 1900s that was put in bottles, and that's when it started to be used at baseball parks.
Now, there's a lot of interesting hot dog history.
Part of baseball culture, in 1958, Ballpark Franks were introduced at Tiger Stadium.
And the high-grade foods company introduced them.
And now today, and their foods started there, that was Ballpark Franks, started to be spread across all kinds of stadiums throughout the United States.
And you can actually buy Ballpark Franks in a grocery store today.
1962,
The Dodgers introduced a 10-inch grilled pork hot dog.
They called it Dodger Dog.
So that's kind of the foot longer.
And in 1970, everybody remembered the Chevrolet commercial, baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.
So really, concession menus really started to explode in the 1970s as all kinds of different
uh... this is the biggest concessions there to be uh... run by larger corporations more formalized in ball parks uh... nachos were introduced in nineteen seventy six uh... by the detroit and by the texas rangers hot pretzels were were ball parks in the early nineteen hundred but it really grew as a body baseball uh... favorite uh... with these larger concession stands and there's the list goes on of all kinds of novelties and
regional vocal cuisine since in the last 25 years, whether it's pizza, burgers, turkey legs, sushi, lobster tails, donuts, gourmet foods, ice cream and teen helmets.
You've probably been to enough ballparks you've already picked out your favorite, as to what some of the most unusual foods are at baseball parks to me.
But papal ballparks,
There are really some interesting and unique foods.
It's quite amazing when one looks at the list, and you can go online and see kind of unique things at each ballpark.
There's lists of the favorite places you can have.
But hot dogs are not a favorite.
Hot dogs and beer are a favorite, and probably over 25% of the sales of hot dogs are still at baseball parks.
to think what your favorite, so I guess one should be, I know you've all from the 10 of the game that down in Milwaukee, Jimmy, and you've probably should mention the famous racing sausages at the Blues game.
It started in the early 1900s as just an animated graphic, and a few years later there were three hot dogs, three sausages racing, they added hot dogs, and just a couple years ago they added a Mexican sausage.
There are now five in the race.
They do it in the middle of the sixth inning.
So it's a fan favorite down at the, uh, at the ballpark for the brewers.
So kind of fun when you start to look at all the ballparks.
Uh, I guess we can take a look at the future program, uh, food and football stadiums and hockey arenas, but, uh, there's the story for today, Jimmy.
What's your favorite, uh, talk about delicacy or food delicacy at the baseball park.
Well, Bill, yours.
I thought that nothing beats going to a ball game.
I mean, relax, nice sunshine, and I parse it in Milwaukee.
You're guaranteed the game because they got the roof.
But with the cost of food bill, I'll be honest, I do most of my damage before I get to the ballpark.
I've got a little tailgate grill thrown back in the car, a little four or five pound propane tank, but you're right, though, when you go to a ballpark, nothing beats one of those hot dogs.
Years ago, I
you get the hot dog, then you got the world famous sauerkraut, which they charge extra for, but now when you go to Milwaukee, you buy your hot dog, your bratwurst, whatever else, get all the condiments on the side, and hot dogs at American Assurance Field now are relatively inexpensive, but you mentioned Bill, some of these ballparks with the delicacies they have there.
I mean, I gotta admit, they're neat to look at, but you almost need a 90-day note if you're gonna have a meal with four or five people, I know,
and where to match play they got a gourmet chef that comes in red certain accession stands but ended a day billier spot on nothing beats a hot dog at a ballgame uh... your favorite soft drink or beverage uh... we were right there i'm part of the district our crowd on it and bill i have said for years hot dog is the biggest mystery food in the world you can cook the same thing at home it tastes totally different when you get at a cookout or a ballgame or anything else
Do you agree with that assessment, Bill?
Because they just taste different.
They taste special when they're out at a get-together, even a family picnic, or a ballgame, a concert, anything.
It's a whole different, it's a whole different flavor to it, almost.
It's the biggest mystery food in the world, in my opinion, with taste, depending on where you have it.
You're quite right.
I know, I've had the ballpark Franks, and it's quite different at a tag game versus cooking them up at home.
i don't know what they put in some magic stuff at baseball or maybe it's just because there's a baseball game in front of you but it is a kind of fun something where you can kind of look at all the different foods that are served now and boy there's some pretty elaborate things that are produced now and then when you uh... when you start to get into um... tailgate
tailgating, that's a whole different level as to what happened with tailgates even now.
It's what served the tailgates, but it's kind of fun to look back on.
Hemorrhage sandwiches, peanuts and lemonade were some of the original stuff before the hot dogs started to arrive at the baseball game, but hot dog is really kind of a part of baseball.
It's part of the baseball culture now, and you can get, as you say, they taste different in front of a ball
game.
teaser for next story next week about two-and-a-half minutes we got to admit nothing beats a bowler's natural casing hot dog wherever you go i'll take care of our friends at bowler's well bill next two days you're going to share a story we got about two-and-a-half minutes here we all know the cbc what's going on up there taken off local cable we didn't get it here in miss again i know years ago i started petition to keep it on there with the old charter and white cable system that somehow went through uh... taken up out of cable systems downstate
Now there's a company that's going to buy the Raptors, buy the Argos, buy the Maple Leafs.
They're buying all the pro franchises in Toronto.
A lot of fear are going up in Canada, how this is becoming like US cable.
Give us a little teaser for that story going in next week, Bill, in about two minutes.
You found some stuff behind the scenes, most don't know about it, I'm guessing.
It's part of Canadian culture with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC.
started broadcasting games on radio way back in the 1930s and started in television when CBC became a TV station, their network, in 1952.
So, I grew up in Sault Ste.
Marie, Ontario, and that was Saturday night.
You knew you were going to be watching hockey.
And so, I just remembered back, and we'll get into some of the famous names that were on the
Broadcasters and color commentators, Don Cherry is one of the most famous ones.
We'll touch on him.
And some of the innovations of that Saturday night broadcast, including the introduction of something called the Three Star Selection, tied into Hockey Night in Canada years ago.
So we'll tie those stories together next week.
So it's kind of fun, but...
and say it's a major announcement last week that uh... cbc is not going to be able to will not be televised in uh... uh... i can't get any more uh... and so we'll share that story next week jimmy just kind of a fascinating look at uh... canadian culture and how important i can i think that there was uh... two Canadians
and i imagine that the outcry and uh... missing isn't good but i can't imagine you'll crack and uh... and bill before i go i said this story many times
This started my passion for hockey.
I've grown up on my late grandfather.
Every Saturday night, and again, our family wasn't in this kind of a broken situation, every Saturday night I would sit on a couch under a coffee table, watch hockey night in Canada, and most know Danny Gallivan as one of my biggest idols in the world.
I kind of roll my broadcasts after him.
I try anyway whatever works or not.
That was a culture for me growing up and I'm gonna make even though when it's on now I would watch the pregame show then go to u.s.
Network could be a tonight definition but It's gonna be dearly missed.
I know I'm missing and I can't imagine this being somebody else right from Canada This has not done this has not done up gone over well bill to say the least up north
For many years the cbc was a free service and now it's uh, you say it's uh
living in the border towns like you probably would see CBC out of Thunder Bay or pick it up on FreeGV and then it's on the cable and for US viewers and it's now ventured over into streaming and so you'll need extra cost to get this service.
i don't know when i live in the home of one of the things is that cable but yet the extracurricular just get cbc db on your cable so it's uh... uh... it's uh... quite a change in in the way that pv is uh... television is broadcast now but uh... we've got some fun stories to share with us next week on uh... on the history of hockey i can't have a posture to it and uh... people gather around the radio to listen to hockey games but it really kind of
was one of those things that helped grow hockey in Canada.
And as you mentioned, as a young boy, it sure shaped your vision of the NHL.
No doubt.
Well, Bill, we're up against it.
We'll get you back next Tuesday.
You can get in there.
We'll get really in the deep of the story about that issue, which let's just say Canadians are not happy.
And obviously, this has to be cleared by FIFA and President Trump as well.
They don't change any more rules on the fly on us.
On that note, Bill, I'll let you go.
You can ponder that one and we'll get you back next Tuesday.
Thanks to you, Bill.
We appreciate it.
Thank you, Jimmy.
You have a great week up there in the couple country.
Yeah, I'm not going too far, Bill.
I'm joining as much as I can.
Thursday, Sean believes him from Woodward Sports and State Champs will join us.
We'll get the latest what's going on in Detroit and schedule them future programs.
Johnny Kane.
from the Cricht Sports Network who does TV work for the Pistons and the Cricht Tigers as well.
We'll be back Thursday and peaking aside the grapevine.
We're going to send it back to Sam in the morning.
Thanks, Sam.