White House Letter: How baseball shaped Bush as person he is

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Elisabeth Bumiller International Herald Tribune
Monday, April 18, 2005

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush's ceremonial first pitch at the home opener of the fledgling Washington Nationals last week was high and wide of home plate. In short, it was no match for the strike that Bush threw to start Game 3 of the World Series in Yankee Stadium when the World Trade Center lay in ruins in the fall of 2001.
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But his throw from the top of the mound - at a distance of 60 feet, or about 18 meters, on a glorious spring evening - was still a reminder that Bush, a former owner of the Texas Rangers and a self-described "junkball" pitcher at Yale, owes much in his life, if not the presidency itself, to baseball.
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When Bush was a child, the game was an obsession for him and a link to his father, a onetime captain and first baseman on the Yale team. When he was an adult, the game made him a multimillionaire, propelled his political career and now serves as an escape from the pressures of the White House. As Bush told sportswriters from The Washington Post, USA Today and The Washington Times last week, he spends "a fair amount of time" reading the box scores each day because it's "one way to take your mind off your job."
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Bush also told them that he started paying attention to the Nationals' lineup during spring training, that he keeps close track of Rangers games (and those of the Houston Astros and others) via his White House satellite dish and that while he doesn't know if he would have won the presidency without his experience in baseball, it was a "good question."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/17/news/letter.html

[KlatooBNikto]

1. Elisabeth seems to be on a trivia rampage these days!First it was

the iPod tunes of GW;second came his icecream licking and now she finds a connection between his baseball and his personality.I especially liked her quote of GW:"reading the box scores is one way to take your mind off your job".What mind and what job, she fails to mention.

[opihimoimoi]

2. The BS continues unabated....... where is the BS DETECTOR???

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3. He did not pitch for Yale .....

..... might have got a uniform and been with the team but he did not play
in a major way.

And he became a millionaire by getting a publicly funded tax to build a ball
park on land seized by the local town (Arlington, TX). That in turn ran the his
value of his part ownership of the team up and he cashed out. He was as he
is now just a figurehead. He was only brought into the deal because of Daddy.

The bullshit keeps flowing.

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4. The only way baseball shaped the person he is was when one

hit him in the head as a child.

[Cocoa]

5. vintage Bumiller

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[Vickers]

6. Oh my God, that article convinced me to like Bush!

HOLY SHIT, that was effective!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[grasswire]

7. never forget.....

....that MR. Bumiller is a Yale classmate of George's.