<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

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

*Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the Celiac List *
Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC