After he became president in 1989, George H.W. Bush kept a prized possession in his Oval Office desk drawer: the first baseman's mitt he wore playing for the Yale varsity more than 40 years before.

George H.W. Bush, right, receives a manuscript of “The Babe Ruth Story” from Ruth during ceremony on Yale’s baseball field in New Haven on June 5, 1948. Associated Press ...

The Yale baseball team visited Bush in Maine in 2017. (Photo: Courtesy of Ray Guarino) George H.W. Bush also received the Yale College Council’s first Yale Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. George W ...

Looking back at George H.W. Bush's lifelong and always special connection to baseball. Search query. ... Bush was a sure-handed first baseman who was a key part of a history-making Yale baseball team.

The Yale community is remembering the former president today. He actually invited the Yale baseball team to Maine just two summers ago. Before he wore the title as President, George Herbert Walker ...

The Yale man is George H.W. Bush, captain of the 1948 baseball team. On the weekend of Bush’s passing, at age 94, there is something irresistibly American about that iconic photograph. More For You ...

About 2,500 showed up — par for a Yale game in New Haven back then. And in the second inning, the new Yale first baseman, George Bush, stroked a single to left ... George H.W. Bush honed ...

George H.W. Bush, once the captain of Yale’s baseball team in the 1940s, showed his eldest grandchild how to throw two-seamers, four-seamers and curveballs.

“After the Yale Baseball team did something that no Yale Baseball team had done which was win two NCAA tournament games since George Bush was playing”, Conn added. Back in those days he said ...

The Yale community is remembering the former president today. He actually invited the Yale baseball team to Maine just two summers ago. Before he wore the title as President, George Herbert Walker ...

The Yale community is remembering the former president today. He actually invited the Yale baseball team to Maine just two summers ago. Before he wore the title as President, George Herbert Walker ...

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