No hamburgers, please – I’m a major league baseball player.

March 1, 2010 by Valley Bugler 

Baseball is banning junk food from the clubhouse.

Some major league baseball players eat most of their meals in the clubhouse. That’s a problem if all that’s available there are hamburgers, steak, french fries and candy.

The whole scene is changing now. Players and their conditioning coaches want healthier food, both in the clubhouse and away from it. Some players are asking for a personal eating plan.

At baseball’s winter meeting in Indianapolis, 12 hours were spent discussing various foods and menus.

To bring everyone on board for healthier food, in December, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent their players to a six-day health camp in Arizona.

The Kansas City Royals put up posters in the clubhouse that offer nutritional advice. And the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Rays are working on a menu with foods rich in antioxidant grains.

Because baseball is played mostly at night, players eat late, go to bed late and sleep late. They get to the ballpark in early afternoon, often having eaten nothing that day. They get $89.50 a day for meals, but eating at the clubhouse is more convenient and it’s free.

There’s no urgent cause for the move toward healthier food. The league doesn’t have an obesity epidemic, and players aren’t on the injured list any more than in most other years, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Trainers say things began to change two or three years ago when several teams replaced fried foods with grilled items. Two years ago, the LA Dodgers  started using a food delivery service to bring healthy meals to the clubhouse and to players when they were at home.

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