Ryne Sandberg says he got food poisoning from Citi Field

I collected baseball cards when I was a kid and once had a Ryne Sandberg rookie card. Growing up in an American League market, the Cubs shortstop was sort of a mythical figure – seen only in cards and on SportsCentre (that’s the Canadian version of SportsCenter).Unknown-2

Currently the Philadelphia Phillies’ manager, Sandberg is saying that he got food poisoning from Citi Field, while on a road trip to play the Mets. According to NJ.com, Sandberg lost six lbs in two days after eating at Shake Shack.

Shake Shack is trying to get a hold of Sandberg to smooth things over or make it right.

Later in the day, Mets first baseman Lucas Duda told ESPN New York that an undercooked burger from the same place left him feeling ill Friday night.

Wonder if Sandberg will go to Mama’s next time.

“A couple of coaches took a bite and didn’t like what they saw and threw the rest away,” Sandberg told reporters before Tuesday’s game. “I was in a rush, so I ended up putting it away. I had one piece of toast in two days, and I’m feeling fine about that. I don’t want anything in my stomach.”

 A couple of years ago ESPN’s Outside the Lines ran an expose about food safety at sports stadiums but Citi Field wasn’t included.

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.