What if...???

In 1992, Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent was forced to resign because he hadn’t acted sufficiently hard-line in negotiations with the players’ union.  At that time, George W. Bush ran the American League’s Texas Rangers.  Dubya really, really, really wanted to replace Vincent as Commissioner, and he apparently lobbied his fellow owners mighty hard in the hope that they would choose him for what he obviously thought would be the coolest job in the world.

The owners negotiated among themselves to determine the best choice for the next Commissioner.  Then they negotiated a while longer.  And a while longer.  And a while longer.  After working on it for a year or so with no end in sight to the impasse, Bush finally gave in to the pressure he’d been undergoing from the Texas Republican party and threw his hat into the ring as a candidate against Governor Ann Richards in the 1994 election.

What if he’d gotten his wish? 

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