Little Leppert

In one of its preview stories on the baseball World Series, The New York Times paralleled the cities of Dallas and San Francisco through their contrasting mayors, Tom Leppert of Dallas and (someone I believe has a bright political future) Gavin Newsom of San Francisco. You can read the entire story here, but the editors also came up with pictures of the two in their younger days dressed in baseball uniforms. In Newsom's case, it was a shot from his high school days in Larkspur, Calif. What you see here is the picture the paper ran of Da Mayor.

Here's my favorite paragraph from another one of the paper's Series preview pieces:

"One ballpark sells T-shirts with the team logo superimposed over the symbol of the Grateful Dead. The other sells photos of the team owner wrapping Robin Ventura in a headlock. If you need to be told which is which, you’re probably not interested in this World Series, anyway."