Oh wow. I have to tag @EasyAce to see this. Thank you for posting this @mountaineer what a great photo.
@Freya EasyAce saw that photo recently, in fact. I was intrigued to see the connection, however brief it might have been.
So far as I know these presidents had a direct connection to baseball:
* Woodrow Wilson played center field for Davidson College before he went to what was then the College of New Jersey but became Princeton.
* Dwight Eisenhower played a spell of semi-pro ball before going to West Point. (His boyhood hero was Honus Wagner; alas, he played football at West Point until a knee injury ended his athletic life.)
* Ronald Reagan created broadcasts of Chicago Cubs games off the telegraph wires for radio station WHO before he became an actor---it was during his trip to Catalina Island with the 1937 Cubs for spring training that he was invited to a screen test and the rest . . .
* George H.W. Bush played first base for Yale, including the Yale team that went to the 1948 College World Series. (When Yale played Fordham University in a 1947 game, Fordham's center fielder was a redheaded kid named Vin Scully. Yale won the game 3-1, the key hit being shortstop Art Moher's two-run homer in the eighth. Whenever Scully and Bush met in the years to follow, he liked to kid Bush about how they both went hitless in that game.)
* George W. Bush played Little League baseball and grew up to become a co-owner of the Texas Rangers.
