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Date: | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:01:56 -0400 |
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We've now had our second email about how GF is treated at a ballpark. I would be interested to know what experiences other people around the country have had at stadiums.
I had a semi-positive experience going to a Washington Nationals game. The first two seasons the team was here, they didn't have an owner. They were owned by Major League Baseball. As a result, details like: "Who-manages-the-ushers?" were kind of left up in the air. I brought my own GF food (and GF beer) to a couple of games the first two years and it was hit-and-miss. They check every bag at the front gate. Sometimes they'd let me go in with my food, sometimes they'd tell me I had to throw it out.
Now the team has an owner. A few weeks ago I went to my first game with the team under new ownership. Again I brought GF food. When I got to the front gate, the usher looked in my bag and called over a supervisor. The supervisor said, "I can't let that in." And I said, "I have a digestive disorder" and he said, "That's all I needed to hear. Go ahead."
I say the experience was "semi-positive" because I still hate feeling like a criminal whenever I approach the front gate of a ballpark.
Perhaps this is something that could be pursued by one of the advocacy groups -- Alice B.? Mary S.? Anyone else?
RP
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