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That Time a Guy Playing a Handful of Baseball Games Nearly Changed American History Forever (2019x305)

Fecha de emisión: Nov 10, 2019

Check my other channel Biographics! h→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: How Do Blue and Green Eyes Exist When Those Pigments Are Not Found in the Human Eye? https://youtu.be/NOeQXTwQaJQ A Genius Among Us https://youtu.be/p450T8cCRtQ In this video: U.S. Presidents and sports have always been connected. Gerald Ford played football as a University of Michigan undergrad. George H.W. Bush played in the first two College World Series. George W. Bush was part owner of the Texas Rangers’ baseball franchise. Barack Obama frequently plays pickup basketball games with his staff (no doubt all terrified of accidentally hurting the Commander-in-Chief during the games.) Heck, Ronald Reagan even portrayed “The Gipper” in the football movie Knute Rockne, All American during his acting days. But only one U.S. President was ever a professional athlete, albeit for a very brief time. Evidence points to Dwight D. Eisenhower having played semi-pro minor league baseball in 1911 in Junction City, Kansas. Although for much of his life, this was something he chose to keep secret. Had he not in the first few years after he did this, it would have changed the course of American history. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/dwight-eisenhower-playing-semi-pro-baseball-changed-american-history/ Sources: http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2014/02/28/our-baseball-presidents-part-2/ http://books.google.com/books?id=LkpS4twE2fEC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=The+General+admitted+that+as+a+youth+he+had+done+so+(played+semi-pro+ball),+under+the+assumed+name+of+Wilson&source=bl&ots=i9On9_tw6X&sig=fl0QCK2Ettk1_cVXLVd7DFtMTik&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oxB8U8rFFNHioATKp