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| First Daughters | Father Figures | ||||
| 1 |  Amy Carter 3B |
1 |  Robert Young RF |
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| 2 |  Jenna Bush LF |
2 |  Danny Thomas 1B |
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| 3 |  Caroline Kennedy CF |
3 |  Jim Backus C |
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| 4 |  Julie Nixon 1B |
4 |  Carl Betz 3B |
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| 5 |  Tricia Nixon 2B |
5 |  Gregory Peck CF |
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| 6 |  Maureen Reagan C |
6 |  Hugh Beaumont 2B |
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| 7 |  Barbara P. Bush SS |
7 |  Ed O'Neill LF |
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| 8 |  Patty Reagan RF |
8 |  Fred MacMurray SS |
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| 9 |  Chelsea Clinton P |
9 |  Marlon Brando P |
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A Personal Cosmic Game played in honor of Fathers Day 2001. This game matches real daughters of Presidents of the United States against virtual fathers as depicted in popular television shows and movies. Baseball is frequently thought to resonate best when fathers and sons play catch or when a son is taken to his first baseball game by his dad. But baseball is also frequently a connecting point between fathers and their daughters. Doris Kearns Goodwin (who was the official scorer of this game) is a good example of a woman who learned to love baseball from her dad: My father loved the Brooklyn Dodgers, passed that love down to me, taught me how to keep score when I was only six years old, so that when he went to work during the day I could record for him the history of that day’s Brooklyn Dodger game. And when your dad sits with you at night for two hours and in excruciating detail you tell him every play of every inning that went on that afternoon it makes you think this baseball is a wonderful thing because it’s connection with the other people that’s really at issue.As the current wave of patriarchy wears down and erodes these seemingly trivial almost intangible connections between fathers and their children will become more important. |
Game DataHomeruns Julie Nixon, Patty Regan, Barbara P. Bush, Carl Betz, Jim Backus, Ed O'Neill Triples None Doubles Jenna Bush, Maureen Reagan Stolen Bases None Caught Stealing None Double Plays First Daughters-1; Father Figures-2 Errors First Daughters-2 (Tricia Nixon, dropped ball; Barbara P. Bush, throwing error) Left-on-Base First Daughters-8; Father Figures-5 Game Most Cosmic Player
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