Changes

In the same year of 1893, the first baseball team began to sell the predecessor to the modern hot dog (dachshund sausages) at baseball games. The Saint Louis Browns were the first team to sell these sausages at their games in buns. The owner, Chris Von de Ahe, was a German-American who saw an opportunity in selling these products at games, where they were easy to eat while sitting and watching the game as they required no knife or fork to eat given the shape of the sausages being long and thin. While the sausage buns were not a standard size, in 1904 Anton Feuchtwanger, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, helped to develop a bun that fit the shape of the sausage. However, some dispute this and state that Feltman in 1871 had already developed a specialized bun that fit the long, thing shaped sausages. It is clear that buns would have developed to fit the increasing culture of eating hot dogs or sausages on the go rather than as a sit down meal. Therefore, buns became developed so that hot dogs could be held without burning your hand and making it easy to eat. Regardless, this innovation of hot dog buns made it even easier to hold and consume the sausage as people sat and watched the exhibition or other events. As for the origins of the term 'hot dog,' this is not fully clear. The most likely story is that in the 1890s, at Yale, German immigrants selling dachshund sausages became associated with dachshund dogs, which were thin and long dogs. The association of the dogs with the sausage vendors could have been a play on words that associated the two, as pronouncing dachshund was not easy for many Americans and the term 'hot dog' was used in reference to the shape and vendors became easier. Other origin myths could have been that 'hot dogs' were a derisive reference to the accusation that dogs were sometimes used as the meat of the hot dogs.<ref>For more on how the sausage became the hot dog, see: Bly, R. W. (2007). <i>All-American frank: a history of the hot dog</i>. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica.</ref>

[[File:Hot-dog-historic.jpg|thumb|Figure 2. Dachshund vendors helped popularize sausages that developed into the modern hot dog.]]