I was besieged with requests for radio, television and podcast interviews, and I was a favorite target of tweeters as if I was the weekly object of President Donald Trump’s tempestuous tweets.
Most interestingly – and most ignorantly – more than a few people called for …
“I have agreed to become a part of it, to work with them and make this league a great success,” Trump told me in a 1989 telephone interview. “I see it as a very viable league. Otherwise, I wouldn’t do it. We’ll have a long-term contract with a major television network or a number of major networks, including cable.”
Speaking nearly 30 years ago, the then 43-year-old real estate entrepreneur sounded much as he does today when he talks about making America great again. He – and the entire country – can only hope …
Selig was in his later years as commissioner of Major League Baseball, and he was not about to let the news media or the rest of the public know how he felt about Bonds, who was widely viewed as a steroids cheat. Selig never commented on Bonds’ status, but I had the feeling that Selig would have been relieved had Bonds been convicted and sentence to prison, where he could no longer intrude on baseball.
The mere mention of Bonds’ name made Selig …
