Nice article about how Bill Holdforth, a former Washington Senators usher known as "Baseball Bill", held a fundraiser and placed a strongly anti-Short ad in a Minneapolis newspaper in 1978, when Short ran for U.S. Senate in 1978. Sounds like a great guy!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/02/04/david-durenberger-bob-short-baseball-bill/"He and his friends formed “Baseball Bill’s Committee to Keep Bob Short out of D.C.,” which raised $3,500 in a backyard fundraiser, a textbook underdog effort against a candidate who would spend more than $1 million of his own money on the race. Baseball Bill’s group pooled its money strategically into a single Minneapolis newspaper ad, which ran on the Sunday before the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party primary. It read in part:
'Don’t Be “SHORT” Changed. Bob Short WAS a Senator. In fact, he was the Washington Senators, the American League Baseball Club. He purchased the team in December 1968. He moved the team to Arlington, Texas, at the end of September 1971. We in our Nation’s Capital were left without a baseball team. We were “short changed.” In two days you people of the great state of Minnesota must make a decision. Bob Short held our trust for three years, and we were SHORT CHANGED. So, before you vote Tuesday, please consider these facts about Bob Short as we know him.
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Seventy-one years of baseball tradition meant nothing to him. Minnesotans have a tradition of sending men of national stature like Humphrey, Mondale, and McCarthy to the U.S. Senate. Does Bob Short’s record measure up? We think not. He took something precious from our community. He broke our hearts.'"
