As Watergate simmered, Nixon buckled down on a sportswriting project

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As he dealt with the immediate fallout from the Watergate break-in during the summer of 1972, President Richard M. Nixon set aside time for a different sort of passion project: assembling a list of his all-time greatest baseball players.

“The President got into quite a thing on his baseball piece he’s written for the AP, the all-time great teams. He dictated it Sunday afternoon and he’s spending an incredible amount of time today on the whole thing. Working out all the little details of which relief pitcher the American League prewar should be on, and all that sort of stuff. Kind of fascinating and not just a little amusing.”That day — with White House domestic policy John D.

After retrieving the memo, the young press secretary said, “I’ve got three suggestions. . . . Either Hugh Casey or Mace Brown or Doc Crandall. Now, I have their games won-and-lost and so forth you may want to look over.” Ziegler: “I haven’t the slightest idea, Bob, I don’t know a goddamn thing about baseball . Mace Brown, however, did pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

Face’s first name, for the record, is Roy, and Nixon wound up choosing him as his post-World War II National League relief pitcher, while Mace Brown got the nod as the prewar NL relief pitcher. Both spent the majority of their careers with the Pirates and had nearly identical ERAs of 3.48 and 3.46, respectively.

 

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I would have voted for Nixon 1,000,000 times over Biden even after Watergate!!!!! Nixon didn't commit a fraction of the crimes this MF has. Along with Everyone in the White House. All need to go. Start fresh with Non politicians!

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