To check Trump's claims of athletic prowess at the New York Military Academy (NYMA), I searched an online newspaper archive for articles published from 1960 through 1964 covering his high school baseball games. The search returned stories from numerous Tri-State newspapers with box scores for thirteen games: three as a sophomore, two as a junior, and eight as a senior.

If Trump were one of the top baseball players in New York State, the game reports would have mentioned his performance, and a profile piece or two might have covered his many skills. However, Trump made so little impression on reporters that he went unmentioned in the thirteen articles, aside from appearing in the box scores.

What do the box scores tell us about Donald Trump, the top baseball player in New York State? In three games during his sophomore season, Trump went 0 for 10, batting .000. As a junior, he batted 2 for 9 for a .222 average. Still, let’s focus on his senior year when more articles are available to see if he dramatically improved and reached top-player status.

The box scores show Donald Trump experienced a severe batting slump his senior year. He had 21 or 22 at-bats; two newspapers covering the same game show he either went 0 for 3 or 0 for 4. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he only went 0 for 3 the day. How many hits did Trump have in 21 at-bats his senior year? Trump got one hit. One.

Donald Trump’s big NFL moment turned awkward when a Fox Sports commentator caught him flat-footed with a question about his high school football record.

The president—attending the Washington Commanders’ 44–22 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, the first regular-season NFL game a sitting president has attended in nearly 50 years—joined Fox broadcasters Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma in the booth for a brief, supposedly lighthearted chat. It didn’t stay that way for long.

Albert opened by reminiscing about Trump’s playing days at New York Military Academy, where he suited up from 1959 to 1964—four years before a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels helped him avoid service in Vietnam. “I played tight end,” Trump recalled. “But I mean, it was not quite football like this. It was a little bit easier. It wasn’t so tough. We had a quarterback who didn’t have a very strong arm. I would say 10 yards was a long pass.”