🇺🇸 He was wearing a bulletproof vest under the FDNY fleece. A Secret Service agent disguised as an umpire stood a few feet away with a gun. Other agents were dressed as groundskeepers. Officials asked him to throw Game 1 in Phoenix. Safer. Bush’s answer was New York or not at all. It was game 3 of the World Series. Steinbrenner got frisked on the way in. He had bounced a first pitch in Milwaukee that season in dress shoes. This time he wore rubber soles. He warmed up under the stands. Derek Jeter asked him: “Are you going to throw from the mound or from in front of it?” Bush asked what he thought. “Throw from the mound. Or else they’ll boo you. Don’t bounce it.” He walked past the short rubber. All the way to 60 feet, 6 inches. Todd Greene was behind the plate. Posada was still in the bullpen with Clemens. He said later it was the most nervous he ever was as president. Not because of the vest. Because he could not bounce it. He threw a strike.