welcome back to the lead. i m jake tapper. the sports let now. tonight at the all-star game in minnesota, it will be hard not to think of tony gwynn. he was an all-star 15 times. a man who lived to play and teach and talk baseball and a man who died way too early because of a habit associated with it. chewing tobacco. now, after more than 100 years, there s a renewed push to get it off the field. cnn s athena jones has more. reporter: major league baseball. america s favorite pasttime. immortalized in films like a league of their own and field of dreams . the one constant through all the years, ray has been baseball. all too and you another constant has been baseball players using
it actually involves pulling way more weight than these trucks are designed to pull. here we go. and so you have to be a really good mechanic to be into it. for 39-year-old building contractor ari squire, preparing diesel trucks for these competitions was more than a hobby. it was his obsession. to accommodate this pasttime, ari built a 2300 square foot garage on his property in the chicago suburbs. ari was a bit of a gearhead. so had he his truck that he was apparently he was always working on. it wasn t considered a dangerous hobby until one february morning in 2008 when ari s wife called 911. 911, lake county sheriff. i think my garage is on fire. i just heard some noise and i opened the door and it s all black smoke. and there s smoke coming from your garage? should i go outside or what wait inside where it is safe. okay? when the smoke cleared,
took so many turns in so many different directions and really, it was bizarre. diesel truck pulling is obscure sport in the united states, but it enjoys a loyal and growing fan base. it actually involves pulling way more weight than these trucks are designed to pull. here we go. and so you have to be a really good mechanic to be into it. for 39-year-old building contractor ari squire, preparing diesel trucks for these competitions was more than a hobby. it was his obsession. to accommodate this pasttime, ari built a 2300 square foot garage on his property in the chicago suburbs. ari was a bit of a gearhead. so had he his truck that he was apparently he was always working on. it wasn t considered a dangerous hobby until one february morning in 2008 when ari s wife called 911. 911, lake county sheriff. i think my garage is on fire. i just heard some noise and i opened the door and it s all black smoke. and there s smoke coming from your garage? should i go outside o
to have a courtroom built into old veterans stadium so they could process all the hooligans. too bad they don t have it anymore for this guy. a parking lot attendant is accused of robbing eagles offensive lineman todd herremanns of almost a quarter million dollars, a little bit at a time over the span of four years. the feds say the suspect, who was paid to watch the eagles cars, lifted the player s checking account number off documents in his car and withdrew money from the account to pay off his own credit card bills. he is now facing bank fraud charges. it s a tradition as old as the national pasttime itself. pitchers using any substance they can to doctor a baseball. but it was a lot easier to spit a glob of tobacco juice on to the ball when the only footage available showed babe ruth running really, really quickly around the bases. last night, as red sox starter jon lester was filleting the cardinals in game one of the world series, something suspicious was noted inside the mitt
fought, fought for freedom and with that freedom our pasttime has grown in to our present time. i remember seeing that and thinking to myself, this was not going to be one of those stories where you could feel a sense of objectivity. you were totally invested in that moment and what was happening, watching that flag go back up. whatever boat was leaving, we wanted to be on it. when the roosevelt launched its first air strike, thing in from ground zero at the world trade center disaster flapped in the foreground. it has become a symbol of american resistance and resolve. that ship is the one that launched most of the aircraft during the initial air campaign against afghanistan. one, two, three. one more real quick. everyone who touches the flag has an experience. perhaps they mourn for the souls