As evidenced by that last Charlie Sheen update, we like to tie current events in with baseball where we can on Big League Stew. In that vein — and in the wake of Mubarak's resignation on Friday — I just came across an article about the day that the ex-Egyptian president took in a Baltimore Orioles game with George H.W. Bush (and roughly half of the United States cabinet) on April 3, 1989.
From the New York Times the next day:
Hosni Mubarak tried on his Orioles cap for the Egyptian journalists, who seemed befuddled at being whisked to Baltimore to watch men in costume hitting balls with bats, and was asked by American reporters how he was enjoying his first baseball game.
''Very good teacher,'' he said, smiling at President Bush. Over the paper plates and a cut-glass relish tray, the captain of the 1948 Yale baseball team was explaining some of the fine points of the American pastime to his guest. ''Of course,'' Mr. Mubarak said, pointing to Mr. Bush, ''he was the captain of the biggest team in the United States.''
President Bush grinned. ''That's what I told him,'' he confessed.
I really don't have anything else to add to this, other than it's interesting that part of the elder Bush's support from Arab countries during the first Gulf War was partly built at a 5-4 extra-inning O's win over the Boston Red Sox. It's also fun to imagine that it was Mubarak who left that message on the bottom of Billy Ripken's bat.
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