How are baseball and hot dogs linked?

subzerofun: How are baseball and hot dogs linked?
Can somebody link me to a site, or possibly suggest a book that explains how hot dogs coincide with baseball?

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Answer by walfor222
In the early 1800’s, Zulu Baseballson created the first baseball bat – made out of a hot dog. Ever since then, we eat hot dogs at baseball games to commerorate his dream (they added buns later because they were tired of getting ketchup on their hands.)

https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/HotDog/HDIndex.htm

Answer by Older Dad
Around the turn of the century (1900-1910) the hot dog came on the scene in the USA. They were reportedly sold at the 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis, MO. Once they figured out that these little sausages could be placed in a bun the hotdog became portable. It also helped that the hotdogs could be cooked easily (steamed, grilled, boiled, etc.). I am not certain which Ballpark first started selling hotdogs to stand, but I am guessing it was on the East Coast, maybe New York. They were a big hit! Easy, portable, inexpensive to produce. What a deal.

Answer by punchie
Interstingly enough the “Travel Channel” just did a show about this. The story goes something like this…with the influx of Eastern European immigrants to the US there were new foods available in the US. “Weiners” (vee-ners) were the standard. Then, the Germans introduced their style of sausage to the US market. Sausage makers sold their goods on college campuses because they were cheap. College students used to call them “dogs” because they joked that the meat used to make them was “dog meat”. As the interest in baseball peaked, so did the need for “fast food” and in walks the sausage stands. They needed to be portable so they used bread as the sausage holder. Sausages were known as “Red Hots”. A sports writer, Tad Dorgan (sp?) drew a cartoon of a weiner in the bun and made a charicature of it that looked like a Dachsund dog….he then wrote the caption, “Get your Red Hot Dogs”…and the name stuck.
My favorite is still a piping hot chili cheese dog!!!!

Answer by Murray
They just are.

It is like Ham and mustard, salt and pepper etc