Book: Trump Was Actively Recruited by 2 Pro Baseball Teams During SchoolConservative Tribune, May 28, 2018, Cillian Zeal
President Donald Trump knows how to play hardball in a metaphorical sense. It turns out he’s not too bad at it in a literal sense, either.
According to a new book on presidents and baseball, the 45th president was scouted by two teams coming out of his high school military prep academy to be a pro prospect, the Washington Examiner reported.
Author Curt Smith says the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies were interested in the first basemen from New York Military Academy before he went off to college at Fordham University in 1964 (he would eventually transfer to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business).
Both times, the president turned down offers to pursue a baseball career. “He chose ‘real money’ over baseball money,†Smith writes.
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