UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) — The 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, has died at the age of 94.
The Texan has a few Michigan connections. He was launched as a national figure when he was nominated by Ronald Reagan to be his running mate at the 1980 GOP Convention in Detroit.
Decades before that he was the Captain of the Yale Baseball team that traveled to Hyames Field in Kalamazoo in both 1947 and 1948 to play in the College World Series.
His secret of success was a baseball metaphor. He said you “had to get off the bench and into the game”, talking about the importance of public service.
It’s said he always had a first basemen’s mitt in a drawer in the Oval Office ready for a game of catch.
