Posted on 02/17/2016 8:38:36 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Donald Trump is many things; billionaire businessman, global brand, reality TV star and lately, a polarizing U.S. presidential candidate.
But before all that, did you know that the man with a networth in excess of $4.5 billion was also a high school jock back in the day?
Oh yes. Turns out, "The Donald" was a three-sport athlete back at the New York Military Academy, playing baseball, football and --?? yup! --?? one season of varsity soccer.
Apparently Trump was pretty good, too.
In an interview with Business Insider a few months ago, Ted Levine, a former high school classmate, says Trump was so athletic he even could have turned pro in baseball.
"He was just the best, a good athlete, a great athlete," Levine told Business Insider. "He could have probably played pro ball as a pitcher. I think he threw 80 miles an hour. I was the catcher. He made my hand black and blue every day . . . Could he play football? Could he play soccer? He could do anything he wanted. He was physically and mentally gifted."
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Ted Levine, a former high school classmate, says ................................. Well at least he has former classmates who remember him. Where are all the Obama and Hillary classmates? From what I hear about Hillary, she was pretty much to herself and not really liked.
God Bless Donald Trump. Looks like he excelled at a sport that I, and many others here [snort], could not.
In fact, NOBODY in this year’s presidential follies is a veteran. .................................... Does being the son of a Postman Count?
I have a brother who was twenty times the ballplayer I was.
He had dreams of making it to the major leagues.
He played semi-pro ball for a couple of seasons after high school. Afterwards he told us that two of the guys on his team had washed out of organized ball at the Class A level.
“And they were so much better than I was....what the heck was I thinking??”
Where did Cruz serve?
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Well papa Cruz served down Cuba way backing Fidel Castro or so it’s said. Now Edward was busy
serving himself to get prepared to rule the world according to papa’s prediction.
So who do you like in today’s Champions League matches?
I’ll say one thing for soccer players. If you can keep going, running up and down the field for 90 minutes plus stoppage time, your stamina and conditioning are tremendous.
It doesn't bother me. It's never been a requirement for the office. Having served in the military does not in and of itself confer some cache of 'specialness' on anyone. I've known some very honorable Vets...I've also known a couple who I'd never let in my house.
knuckle baller... how many in the majors over the last 40 years ?
This past season was lost to me. (Thankfully, because I am a Man. U. fan).
I’d love to see Leicester City win the Premier League.
That's your business.
It's never been a requirement for the office.
I never said it was.
There have been two Presidents in my lifetime with no military background: William Jefferson Blythe "Slick Willy" Clinton and Barack Hussein Soetoro Odinga Soebarkah Whateverhthehell 0bama (if any of those are his real names). The last President who was worth a damn, and who was not a veteran, was Calvin Coolidge.
I'm not terribly thrilled with this year's Presidential contenders.
Donald Trump once said that the danger he faced from getting sexually transmitted diseases was his own "personal Vietnam."
In a 1997 interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about how he had been "lucky" not to have contracted diseases when he was sleeping around. "I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It's scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era," Trump said in a video that resurfaced Tuesday on Buzzfeed, "It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier."
If you trust wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knuckleball_pitchers
Oddly the less important somthing is the more chance of Wikipedia being right.
Remember when Obama bowled a 37 during his ‘08 campaign?
So? It was Howard Stern’s show. It always gets a little silly.
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