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Some players sign autographs for youngsters, while others play practical jokes on their teammates. It takes one pitcher several innings to realize that someone has stuck a wad of used bubble gum on the top of his shoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Payne Park Not Quite the Bigs | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...beard, guzzles beer and rides a motorcycle. Doug Plug looks so much like a fire hydrant that dogs eye him affectionately. These disgusting creatures, along with other urchins like Ghastly Ashley and Messy Tessie, are the Garbage Pail Kids, who are depicted on a hot-selling collection of bubble-gum cards manufactured by Topps Chewing Gum, the Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes, 8, of Crosswicks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copyrights: Trouble in the Garbage Pail | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...true that we travel first class on airplanes now. He was simply too stressed out after flying baggage class. Yes, Disney is talking TV series. But Mike wants his public to know that his success didn't come overnight. We are talking about a veteran of commercials for Doublemint gum, French's mustard and Toyota. Now if you'll excuse us." Mike, we hear you are trying to get away for a quiet tryst with your collie girlfriend. Any comment? "Really we must go. Mike has never attacked a reporter before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1986 | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...explain that men who use chewing tobacco suffer higher incidents of lip and gum cancer...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...store also carries 13 flavors of tea, three brands of mustard, and 12 kinds of chewing gum, not to mention the wide selection of cookies, cakes, and candies...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer and Russ Muirhead, S | Title: Munching Past Midnight at the Store 24 | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

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