Before he was the 41st President of the United States . . .
Before he opened his library at Texas A&M and retired to his ranch in south Texas . . .
George Herbert Walker Bush was a pretty solid baseball player at Yale.
And his playing days at Yale led to one pretty cool moment on the mound — and one pretty awesome picture that we can look back on 65 years later.
Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian and contributor to many news organizations, posted a picture to his twitter account (@BeschlossDC) of Bush meeting baseball legend Babe Ruth before a game at Yale.
Here is scene when 24-year-old Yale baseball captain George HW Bush met Babe Ruth 2 months before the Babe's death: twitter.com/BeschlossDC/st…
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 2, 2013
It is an amazing moment in time.
CBS Sports reports that the meeting took place because Ruth was donating the original manuscript of his autobiography to Yale.
Bush was 24 at the time because he spent four years serving in the United States Navy, where he was stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, beginning the Bush family's long ties to the Lone Star State, before deploying and fighting during World War II.
Of course, this is not the Bush family's only famous tie to baseball.
George W. Bush purchased a share of the Texas Rangers in 1989 and served as the team's managing general partner for five years. Now living in Dallas, the younger Bush can still be seen attending several Rangers games, sitting next to another baseball legend . . . Nolan Ryan.
