MLB ballpark road trip, five friends and jars full of players' spit

Adam Bloom and his four buddies had just graduated from college in 1996 when they set out on a summer adventure. Huge baseball fans, they embarked on a road trip to MLB parks around the country, and along the way managed to convince a host of MLB All-Stars to play along with a simple yet unusual request: Please give us your gum or spit into a glass baby food jar. Bloom's story of that road trip with his friends began with his own dream of visiting every MLB park and ended with an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" showing the jars of gum and spit they had collected. The journey is the subject of an SC Featured, "Spitball," scheduled to air Sunday morning on ESPN. Bloom and his buddies -- Kevin Berson, Pratik "Pate" Patel, Anthony "A.Y." Young and Charlie Cook -- were joined by Tracy Abbott, a producer from the Tonight Show.

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