Here’s a fun item from Peter Gammons at ESPN:
We have been led to cynically believe that many politicians are disingenuous and generally phony, but few will ever beat Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. This man, who changed his middle initial to be JFK and at an anti-Vietnam rally threw someone else’s medals into the water, made a self-promotion appearance with Boston talk-show maven Eddie Andelman and claimed he was a big Red Sox fan from his days growing up in Groton, Mass. And at the promotion he said Eddie Yost was his favorite player.
The problem with that is just the simple fact that Eddie Yost never played for the Red Sox.
Me: I am no baseball junky, as everyone here knows. But I do like politics. And while I can understand why I wouldn’t know that Eddie Yost never played for the Red Sox, I am baffled how a politician from Mass. could make a mistake like that.