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Let’s Recall President Eisenhower’s “Baseball Secret!”
And the Free World is forever grateful!
Dwight Eisenhower had a life-long love for baseball. Born in 1890 and growing up in a relatively poor family, Eisenhower, as a small boy, often declared his ambition to one day be a baseball player “like Honus Wagner.” Later, at West Point, Eisenhower tried out for the baseball team but didn’t make it. He was later quoted as saying, “Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.”
Ike’s Secret
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Nice article, but I miss Harry Truman who was ambidextrous and often threw out ceremonial pitches with either arm. His wife Bess was a huge Kansas city baseball fan.
Interesting article about a great person. Love the picture.
Hi Gary,
Very good! Judging by some of the “man on the street” interviews lately, revealing the astounding ignorance of our current populace when it comes to U.S. history in general and presidential politics in particular, you’re doing well to remember that Ike was president, along with a host of other icons who came before and after. “LOL,” may I say!
(Yesterday was Presidents’ Day, i.e., neither the birthday of Abraham Lincoln or George Washington, but a Monday off for our nation’s thinkers. When asked what Honest Abe was best remembered for, a passerby thought it might be the Lincoln Tunnel — so Gary, please step to the head of the class.)
Ike seemed like such a bland world leader in the ’50s, succeeding Harry Truman and preceding John Kennedy as he did, but in retrospect I’d take four scoops of dull and uneventful over a whiff of what we’re getting these days. The Western Hemisphere owes him an enormous debt of gratitude for his heroic gamble at the height of WWII — or, as the Lady on the Street might say, his great-looking jacket.
Thanks for a fun and interesting article.
Best regards,
Michael
Thanks Michael!