What if George W. Bush stayed a baseball team owner?
• Then his brother Jeb probably would have become President. • A similar question, which has both political wonks and baseball fans wondering, is what could have been if George W. Bush had become commissioner of Major League Baseball? Bush made no secret of his desire to become commissioner and was told, according to former commissioner Fay Vincent, by then-acting commissioner (and current commissioner) Bud Selig that he was being considered for the position. Perhaps some of the same situations would have come up for both commissioner of baseball (such as the labor unrest of 1994) and President of the U.S. (such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001) regardless of whether or not George W. Bush held either position, but how these events may have been handled differently is certainly a question. • What if John F. Kennedy had followed the Secret Service’s advice and left the bulletproof bubble-top up on the Presidential limo in Dallas? • Then he would have been toted as the assho
