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Actually, his wife Jill is the most passionate Phillies fan between the two:
“My wife is an absolute fanatical Phillies fan,” Biden said in 2012 while standing alongside Rollins at a news conference in Washington. “Every night, when I go to bed, if Jill is awake, I lean in to kiss her good night, and as I turn my head, I look right into the bobblehead of Jimmy Rollins. ... That’s more than a man should have to take. Jimmy gave her his warm-up jacket, and she’s always around the house with the jacket on.”
Herbet Hoover, of all people, was a Philadelphia A's fan:
"Herbert Hoover became such a regular at Philadelphia A’s games that Connie Mack adopted the president in the summer of 1930 as the team’s mascot.
Hoover threw out the first pitch before the opening game of the team’s 1929 season (a 13-4 win in Washington) and was at Shibe Park six months later to throw out the first pitch before the A’s World Series clincher. Hoover and his wife, Lou, were at Griffith Stadium in Washington the following July just as the A’s were starting to run away with the pennant.
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Like Mack hoped, Hoover returned to Philadelphia in October for the first game of the 1930 World Series. The A’s won with their mascot watching and captured their second straight title in six games. The A’s, The Inquirer’s John M. McCullough wrote, “can be pardoned if they regard the President of the United States as their mascot.”
But in the depths of the Depression, the always polite Philadelphia fans let him know of their displeasure with one key decision:
"But Hoover’s honeymoon with Philadelphia eventually wore out. He returned to Shibe Park in October 1931, when the A’s reached their third straight World Series, and was booed as he took his seat. The fans, two years before the end of prohibition, chanted “We want beer!”
“I’m here to tell you that it made me unusually sore,” Hoover said in 1940. “And the main reason for that was because I was the only man in the grandstand who had obeyed the law and been thirsty for 15 years.”
The crowd booed Hoover’s first pitch, which was wild and had to be caught by a leaping umpire, and booed again when instructed after the game to stay seated while Hoover left the ballpark.
“My wife is an absolute fanatical Phillies fan,” Biden said in 2012 while standing alongside Rollins at a news conference in Washington. “Every night, when I go to bed, if Jill is awake, I lean in to kiss her good night, and as I turn my head, I look right into the bobblehead of Jimmy Rollins. ... That’s more than a man should have to take. Jimmy gave her his warm-up jacket, and she’s always around the house with the jacket on.”
Herbet Hoover, of all people, was a Philadelphia A's fan:
"Herbert Hoover became such a regular at Philadelphia A’s games that Connie Mack adopted the president in the summer of 1930 as the team’s mascot.
Hoover threw out the first pitch before the opening game of the team’s 1929 season (a 13-4 win in Washington) and was at Shibe Park six months later to throw out the first pitch before the A’s World Series clincher. Hoover and his wife, Lou, were at Griffith Stadium in Washington the following July just as the A’s were starting to run away with the pennant.
[...]
Like Mack hoped, Hoover returned to Philadelphia in October for the first game of the 1930 World Series. The A’s won with their mascot watching and captured their second straight title in six games. The A’s, The Inquirer’s John M. McCullough wrote, “can be pardoned if they regard the President of the United States as their mascot.”
But in the depths of the Depression, the always polite Philadelphia fans let him know of their displeasure with one key decision:
"But Hoover’s honeymoon with Philadelphia eventually wore out. He returned to Shibe Park in October 1931, when the A’s reached their third straight World Series, and was booed as he took his seat. The fans, two years before the end of prohibition, chanted “We want beer!”
“I’m here to tell you that it made me unusually sore,” Hoover said in 1940. “And the main reason for that was because I was the only man in the grandstand who had obeyed the law and been thirsty for 15 years.”
The crowd booed Hoover’s first pitch, which was wild and had to be caught by a leaping umpire, and booed again when instructed after the game to stay seated while Hoover left the ballpark.
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