Hail to the Chiefs: Yankees Lean Left When It Comes to Championships

This afternoon, the remaining members of the Yankees 2009 World Series Championship team will have the honor of meeting President Barack Obama at the White House. For the core four Yankees (Jeter, Posada, Rivera and Pettitte), this will be the third sitting President with whom they have visited to celebrate a championship (Bill Clinton three times and George W. Bush once). However, the visit to Bush resulted from a victory during the Clinton administration. Over the last 50 years, the Yankees have thrived under Democrat administrations, but come up empty when a Republican was in the White House. The Yankees last championship under the GOP dates all the way back to 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was the commander in chief. Since then, all nine of the Yankees World Series victories have come with a Democrat leading the nation. I never like to mix politics and sports, but perhaps that’s something to keep in mind the next time you enter a polling booth during a presidential election.

Yankees Record By Political Party

	W	L	T	Pct	R	RA	AL	WS
Democrats	4426	3164	44	0.583	37531	30930	23	20
Republicans	5161	4136	49	0.555	45171	40354	17	7

 

Yankees Record By Administration
	W	L	T	Pct	R	RA	AL	WS
Barack Obama	115	65	0	0.639	1011	820	1	1
Warren Harding	257	146	0	0.638	2227	1706	2	0
John Kennedy	309	176	1	0.637	2358	1839	3	2
Franklin Roosevelt	1156	677	17	0.631	10355	7705	7	6
Dwight Eisenhower	761	468	4	0.619	6140	4695	6	3
Herbery Hoover	375	240	4	0.610	4030	3157	1	1
Harry Truman	747	483	3	0.607	6279	4860	5	5
Jimmy Carter	392	255	0	0.606	3120	2567	2	2
George W. Bush	775	518	2	0.599	7048	5994	2	0
Calvin Coolidge	493	331	5	0.598	4522	3680	4	3
Bill Clinton	724	504	1	0.590	6738	5659	4	4
Gerald Ford	215	156	0	0.580	1644	1344	1	0
Ronald Reagan	677	562	0	0.546	5854	5345	1	0
Richard Nixon	468	444	2	0.513	3526	3419	0	0
William McKinley	60	59	2	0.504	67	69	0	0
Lyndon Johnson	401	406	6	0.497	3010	2945	1	0
Woodrow Wilson	582	598	16	0.493	4660	4535	0	0
Theodore Roosevelt	504	535	21	0.485	4876	5172	0	0
William Taft	288	318	9	0.475	2529	2709	0	0
George H.W. Bush	288	359	0	0.445	2708	3064	0	0

 

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