“The president has long claimed he could have gone pro. We looked into it.”
Was Trump good enough to play pro baseball? I don’t know, and the article suggests he was nowhere near that level, but I have to give the devil his due. He was a jock, good at almost every sport. He only played one varsity sport at Fordham (squash), but he was a playground legend, and every intramural team tried to recruit him in just about every sport. He didn’t play much because he was a commuter. The day-hops spent way too much of their lives going back and forth, so most of the intramural athletes were students who lived in the dorms or in off-campus apartments, but when Trump hung out and played, he was said to be tremendous, and he was reputed to be a superlative golfer. His high school records support that. At various times, he played high school football, baseball, basketball, soccer, bowling and wrestling. He was a real jock.
Per the podiatrist’s daughter, her father diagnosed the “bone spurs” as a father to his landlord, one Fred Trump. Afterwards, the man, whose office was in a Fred Trump-owned building got freebie work on his maintenance.
The daughter wasn’t sure if her father had actually even examined the heel’s heel. The whole thing sounds spurious.
Actually medical deferments were ridiculously easy to get if you knew anyone in the “Movement” or had a sympathetic family doctor. My feet probably could have been trumped up into a deferment – I hadn’t been able to wear regular cleated shoes when i played football in HS because of odd bone structure in my feet. Dr. Weidenthal (a Viennese gentleman and refugee from the Nazis) thought it may have been an oddity which occurred from my having been an extreme preemie.
So, those bone spurs weren’t quite so crippling then?
Perfect.