Ian Kinsler, Pre-War Scholar
While the majority of baseballers use their respective offseasons to the end of playing golf and/or impregnating females, this tweet (courtesy MLB Trade Rumors) reveals that Texas Ranger second baseman Ian Kinsler dedicates at least some of his leisure time to decidedly more scholarly pursuits — namely, lively discourses with Ranger GM Jon Daniels et al. on the subject of FDR’s revolutionary economic programs of the early 1930s.
While we’re unable to confirm the information at this time, the NotGraphs Investigative Reporting Investigation Team has reason to believe that Kinsler’s next conversation with the Rangers will concern, specifically, the Wagner Act of 1935.
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Well done sir.
amazing. seems like it could make a good literal tweet for summer anne burton!
How do you draw the New Deal?
You draw a deal, cross it out, then draw a new one.
Word out of the Rangers’ camp is that Jon Daniels places a large share of the blame for the economic crisis on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, while Kinsler favors a broader-based approach encompassing cultural and social origins of the Depression.
Kinsler seems pretty educated for an ASU student. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7RmG4IM1dU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGHeaLGC8rM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZxqlxBKWLY
ridiculous….
Wagner Act…. Ian Kinsler doesn’t even know what a Wagner Act is…
Update: Daniels not willing to offer “Chicken” in every pot, Kinsler counters with “Cabbage”