As a political science major in college, I had thoughts of getting into writing about politics. Baseball, however, grabbed hold of me and never let go. How was I to know that at this late date I would find a reason to combine the two interests?

I combine them through the name David Samson: the southeast David Samson, who is president of the Miami Marlins and the northeast David Samson who is a long-time friend and ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and possibly part of a scandal that has seriously undermined Christie’s efforts to gain the Republican nomination for president.

The political Samson, who has also served in the Christie administration, has not been accused of wrongdoing in the George Washington Bridge scandal, but after it became a publicly controversial issue, he resigned as a board member of the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, of which he had also been the chairman.

More recently Samson was linked to an investigation at United Airlines, resulting in the resignation of three top executives. Samson frequently flew United from Newark Airport to South Carolina, where he has a second home. The Port Authority manages Newark Airport.

The baseball David Samson has encountered his own controversies but is best known for generating widespread dislike among his baseball colleagues.

Several years ago I was talking to a baseball executive and expressed the thought that Samson seemed to be the most disliked executive in baseball. I was thinking about Samson because I had just written about the Marlins’ questionable treatment of their rookie left fielder, Logan Morrison, in demoting him to the minors.

My executive friend disagreed with my view. If not Samson, I asked, who? Jeff Wilpon, he said. Wilpon is the New York Mets’ chief operating officer and son of Fred Wilpon, the team’s principal owner.

Samson has his job for a similar reason. It was all in the family. When his mother married Jeffrey Loria, Samson, who had a law degree, joined the Marlins’ front office, eventually becoming president. The surprising part of his position was he retained it when his mother and Loria were divorced.

“His mother had the money,” an executive of another club noted.

Samson has a sandpaper personality, and he is not well regarded as a baseball man. He has no baseball background. Perhaps that’s why he makes comments like the one that caught my attention last week.

It’s not entirely clear how Samson’s latest foot-in-mouth stumble developed, but he exchanged verbal shots with Scott Boras, the agent every club official has reason to resent. To deal with him costs a lot of money.

Last summer Marcell Ozuna, a Boras client, encountered a rough stretch, managing only 1 hit in 36 times at bat. The Marlins demoted the young outfielder to the minors, where he stayed for six weeks despite quickly regaining his hitting stroke.

The Marlins used Ozuna’s slump as an excuse to send him to the minors, but Boras saw more to the demotion and he was probably right. The extra time in the minors cost Ozuna significant major league service time, affecting his eligibility for salary arbitration. The Marlins were having a surprisingly miserable season, and they figured they didn’t stand to gain anything if Ozuna helped them win a few more games.

“He’s a lifetime .265 hitter,” Boras told reporters at the general managers meetings, “and I can find you 30 players in the major leagues that went 1 for 36 some time in their career, and they did not get sent to the minor leagues. When you do those things, it sends a message to players, sends a message to the locker room and sends a message to everyone that looks at the organization that there is a calculus going on that is beyond performance.”

Some unsophisticated reporters heard or read that comment and criticized Boras for trying to tell the Marlins how to run their team, but those critics hadn’t paid attention to the games clubs play in manipulating players’ service time so they can retard their eligibility for salary arbitration and free agency.

Like all club executives, Samson wasn’t going to acknowledge what the Marlins’ motives were, but he went a step further in yapping back at Boras, choosing an entirely different subject as his weapon.

Jose Fernandez, the bright young right-hander, will presumably be pitching his first full season following elbow reconstructive surgery, and Samson said the Marlins won’t consult Boras for his opinion on how much Fernandez should pitch next season.

“My strong suggestion to Mr. Boras is that instead of resting on his 5 percent that he collects from his stable of players, he write a check and buy a team,” Samson said. “Then he would have the opportunity to run a team that he claims to be so able to do. Until that time, he is in no position to comment how any Major League Baseball team is operated.”

Sounding like a petulant child, Samson added of Boras, “He will not be involved in any discussion as it relates to Jose Fernandez. We will be in touch with the doctors and Jose as we formulate a plan.”

Samson did not return multiple calls seeking comment. Dan Halem, MLB’s chief legal officer, and David Prouty, the union’s general counsel, didn’t return calls either.

In years past years, baseball’s labor lawyers on both sides returned calls to the few reporters who called them so that they could give reporters their views on issues that might have two sides. Perhaps they are so cozy and comfortable with each other in these times of unnatural extended labor peace they don’t feel the need to express their views or the rules as they see them.

Boras, on the other hand, called back as did a veteran agent whom I called to find out the protocol for clubs involving agents in such conversations.

“If they want to involve the player,” the agent said, “the agent has a right to be there. If they don’t want to involve the player, they have no reason to involve the agent. There’s no protocol. It’s just based on good manners.”

Boras seemed amused by Samson’s remarks, which he had not heard or read previously.

“I don’t talk to him; I talk to Michael Hill and Jeffrey Loria,” he said by telephone Saturday evening, referring to the Marlins’ president of baseball operations and the owner. “I don’t really talk to Samson. I talked to Hill about free agents and Fernandez.

“Jose’s surgeon isn’t the Marlins’ surgeon, but we invited their surgeon into it. We’ve talked with the Marlins about Jose’s schedule. He’s fine. There was comment before and after. I talk to them regularly.”

It seems that maybe it’s Samson who is left out of the conversations.