Banned in Baseball: Iced Cabbage

Boiling in the lead-up to the 4th?  Try iced cabbage leaves on your head---seems Babe Ruth used to apply same to his head, changing them every two innings.
So did South Korean pro ballpayer and pitcher Myung-hwan Park until his league banned the practice.
Evidently the pitcher has quite a follow-through--his hat flew off twice in a recent game, sending the  cabbage leaves flying.  Korean Baseball Organization officials  felt the cabbage practice " can interrupt games," hence the ruling against the vegetative cooling device.  The Seattle Times, June 23, reported the KBO considered cabbage leaves to be a "foreign substance." 

Cabbage is the centerpiece of Korea's ubiquitous  kimchi, people. Foreign?!  Sheesh.

Comments

[Cynthia]

Maybe it wasn't Asian cabbage! ;-)