Posted on 09/21/2015 12:33:08 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
These days, Donald Trump is known more as a presidential candidate and reality TV personality, but back in the 1960s, he was something of a talented ball player — one good enough, it seems, to be scouted by our very own Phillies.
As one of Trump’s former teachers recently told Rolling Stone, that is apparently the case, saying that the Republican front-runner was a good baseball player during his time at the New York Military Institute.
“He was good-hit and good-field,” former instructor Col. Ted Dobias said. “We had scouts from the Phillies to watch him, but he wanted to go to college and make real money.”
Interestingly, this isn’t the first pro baseball Trump scouting report to come about since Trump began his bid for president. The Boston Red Sox also reportedly looked at Trump as an option in 1964, his graduating year.
Trump, as CSN points out, has also said that his fate formerly was with professional ball.
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Oh they are absolutely SCOURING trumps past for opposition research.
But I apologize to little girls for the comparison.
At least Trump didn’t lie about being drafted, like Bill Richardson did.
Perhaps he would have hit a home run off of Fidel Castro?
Holy cow! IMHO, if he was any good he could have been playing with Rice, Evans, Lynn, Yaz.
I would have liked to have owned his rookie year card if he had played for either the Phillies or the Red Sox!
Huh, Trump’s talented at a lot of things it appears.
Is that Trump with the first baseman’s glove?
I heard once that Trump killed a bear when he was only three.
If he was there for a decade.
I knew there was a reason he attracted me.
Baseball.
:-)
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And his hair does look like an orange coon skin cap.
Well at least we won’t have to cringe when Trump throws out the first ball on a game night. :-)
Is Mr. Trump the one in the middle? He was a fine looking young man, if so.
Never mind. Wasn’t sure what I was looking at. Apparently it’s a photo representing sports at NYMA: shooting, golf, baseball (DT), basketball and wrestling
Seriously? I mean, I think you can rule out the golfer, second guy from the left. What’s cool, is Trump’s uniform looks dirty like he actually played that day.
With the season the Phillies are having, he could still make the team.
If he mispronounced your name, you’d be compelled to change it. He is.....
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