On Tuesday, Aug. 31, when President George W. Bush introduced his wife at the Republican National Convention via satellite from Gettysburg, Penn., you could see, over his left shoulder, a softball
game going on. But if you looked a little closer, you saw something odd: All the batters whacking pitches into the air had the number "43" stenciled on their jerseys in bright white print. "It wasn't
a regularly scheduled game," said Russ Schriefer, the media consultant who produced the convention. "It was a way for us to go in and reward some supporters, a local Republican organization, with them
being a backdrop for this remote."
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