President George W. Bush was a “head cheerleader” in high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., according to The New York Times. The outlet reported the school’s dean of students was not impressed with Bush when he “initiated a series of humorous pep talks and skits in the weekly school assemblies,” suggesting the buffoonery “drew attention to the cheerleaders rather than to the football team.”
By the time Bush enrolled at Yale University, he had high hopes to add to his family’s baseball legacy at the Ivy League school. According to The Guardian, his grandfather was on the 1917 squad, and his father “played in the 1947 College World Series” and was also a captain on that ball club. But as Bush told the outlet, when he was “warming up in the bullpen,” the manager decided to have a second baseman pitch in favor of him, Bush lamented, “and that was the end of my career.” Instead, he worked his way up the cheerleading ranks and was selected the “chief cheerleader” to round off his family’s athletics legacy at Yale.
Bush certainly didn’t plan on adding “chief cheerleader” to his family legacy at Yale, but then again, when he was a kid, he had aspirations of becoming a Hall of Fame-caliber MLB player, as he told the newspaper, “I never dreamed about being president. When I was growing up, I wanted to be Willie Mays.”
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