Trump, who actually was his school’s team captain, has long claimed that he was the best athlete there, a boast rarely challenged because coaches and classmates tended to praise him once it became in their best interests to do so.Īnd what about that Yankee phenom, nicknamed “Bulldog” by his teammates (including legendary superstar Mickey Mantle) for his ferocious tenacity on the mound? Only six years after his World Series heroics, sportswriters would be furiously writing him off as a “journeyman” ballplayer, a “social leper” who had betrayed the game to produce a “tell-all” book written for him by a lefty journalist.
In fact, his team didn’t even play Cornwall that year. That home run, in fact, would prove just a foretaste of his talent for hyping himself. And it may remind us of what we’re missing.Īs you may already have guessed, Don Trump was never really a pro prospect. Unpacking why not might just help us survive another day without baseball at a time when - thanks to that now grownup first-baseman - we really need the diversion. Neither of those hotshots fulfilled their baseball promise.
That same year, a 25-year-old New York Yankees pitcher named Jim Bouton, an All-Star the previous season, won two World Series games against the St. No question about it - the big kid was a professional prospect! In 1964, an 18-year-old New York Military Academy first baseman named Don Trump slammed a game-winning home run against Cornwall High School that perked the interest of scouts for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox. Photograph Source: Professional baseball player Jim Bouton – Public Domain
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