There have already been all sorts of baseball-as-politics and politics-as-baseball analogies attempted so far this election season, nearly all of which have involved the Republicans to the Yankees. After realizing, the other day, that the Yankees are yet to win a championship since Dubya assumed the presidency, I spent about 15 minutes figuring out who was president the last time each major league baseball team won the Series:
George W. Bush: Florida Marlins, Anaheim Angels, Arizona Diamondbacks
Bill Clinton: New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays
George H.W. Bush: Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland A’s
Ronald Reagan: Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals
Jimmy Carter: Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates
Gerald Ford: None
Richard Nixon: None
Lyndon Johnson: None
John Kennedy: None
Dwight Eisenhower: San Francisco (then-New York) Giants
Harry Truman: Cleveland Indians
Franklin Roosevelt: None
Herbert Hoover: None
Warren G. Harding: None
Calvin Coolidge: None
Woodrow Wilson: Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox
William Howard Taft: None
Theodore Roosevelt: Chicago Cubs
Teams that have never won the World Series under any president: Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Colorado Rockies, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 17, 2004 12:06 AMThere's a clever point waiting to be mined out of this data...If I could only find it! Damn work, keeping me from thinking about stuf like this.
Posted by: Daniel Geffen at September 17, 2004 12:11 PMGreat info, Steve.
Although the WW reminder is a bit painful for us Red Sox fans.....
But I still believe......
And the knowledge that the NYY haven't won under W could be comforting - perhaps if they don't win the series, that means W takes a walk. Of course it may not mean that at all, but I gotta hang my hat on something..