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If you type "Kennedy baseball" into a search engine, up pops John Edward Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_(third_baseman)
John Edward Kennedy played for ...Boston and Los Angeles (back when they were the Dodgers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_(third_baseman)
John Edward Kennedy played for ...Boston and Los Angeles (back when they were the Dodgers).
Another link is to the Baseball Almanac where it says:
"John F. Kennedy simply loved sports. He was an avid fan of his hometown Boston Red Sox, but never had a chance to attend one of their games while in office. He was well known for his official appointment of a scorekeeper...
"John F. Kennedy simply loved sports. He was an avid fan of his hometown Boston Red Sox, but never had a chance to attend one of their games while in office. He was well known for his official appointment of a scorekeeper...
... and stat advisor which he affectionately titled 'Undersecretary of Baseball.'"
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/prz_cjk.shtml
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/prz_cjk.shtml
JFK Throws Out 1st Pitch At 1962 All-Star Baseball Game
Kennedy appears at 7:22 in the video...
Kennedy appears at 7:22 in the video...
The Baseball Almanac has more on the 1962 All-Star Series, including the rosters
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1962as.shtml
"A couple years ago they told me I was too young to be president and you (Stan Musial) were too old to be playing baseball. But we fooled them."
- President John F. Kennedy
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/yr1962as.shtml
"A couple years ago they told me I was too young to be president and you (Stan Musial) were too old to be playing baseball. But we fooled them."
- President John F. Kennedy
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum web site has more on the JFK-baseball connection.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
"Kennedy's biography notes he played baseball in the 1931-32 school year. In later years, however, he concentrated on basketball and football."
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
"Kennedy's biography notes he played baseball in the 1931-32 school year. In later years, however, he concentrated on basketball and football."
"On June 24, 1960, then-Senator Jack Kennedy wrote to Hank Aaron to thank him for his help during the Wisconsin Presidential Primary. With Aaron suffering through a month-long hitting slump, Kennedy expressed his hope that Hank would 'push that average up over the .300 mark'."
Several audio clips can be found here:
https://baseballresearcher.blogspot.com/2015/04/john-f-kennedy-and-baseball.html
Vince Lloyd interviewed President Kennedy before the White Sox faced the Senators in the opening game of Washington's 1961 season. The first time a sitting president had been interviewed on live TV at a baseball game
https://baseballresearcher.blogspot.com/2015/04/john-f-kennedy-and-baseball.html
Vince Lloyd interviewed President Kennedy before the White Sox faced the Senators in the opening game of Washington's 1961 season. The first time a sitting president had been interviewed on live TV at a baseball game
John Edward Kennedy shared the same birthday (May 29, 1941) as President John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917).
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192253811/john-kennedy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192253811/john-kennedy
"John Edward Kennedy came to the major leagues with the Washington Senators during John Fitzgerald’s administration. A love letter to baseball’s Kennedy from his fiancée once was sent to the White House (where that type of mail may have been common during the early 1960s)...
... A staff member at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue recognized the error and redirected the mail to the baseball Senators’ clubhouse. “There was nothing else, no note or anything, just a manila envelope from the White House,” the infielder said in an interview."
"Edward Kennedy said his interest in baseball dated back at least to the day of Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral in April of 1945. “The funeral was on the radio and...during it my dad asked me, ‘Would you like to be President one day?’ and I said no, I want to be a baseball player."
