Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was the most famous Georgetown Prep Class of ’85 alum for three decades … until this week.
Classmate Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nomination for the vacant Supreme Court seat, trumps (pun intended!) a successful baseball exec … even one who has led the country’s most successful sports franchise to four World Series championships.
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Cashman was excited hearing Trump’s picked Gorsuch on Wednesday night to fill Antonin Scalia’s vacant Supreme Court seat. Cashman now is hoping for a quick confirmation from the Senate.
“It’s a great opportunity for him and I’m very proud,” Cashman told the New York Daily News. “Hopefully it will be smooth sailing for him.”
Cashman was impressed with Gorsuch while they schooled together at Georgetown Prep.
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch has made prep school classmate|Yankees GM Brian Cashman proud. (Jose Luis Magana | AP)
“(Gorsuch) was easily voted class president, and for good reason,” Cashman told the Daily News. “Based upon the two years I went to high school with him, he was extremely intelligent and a high-character guy. I thought he was a tremendous choice (for the Supreme Court).”
Gorsuch, 49, is a Colorado native who attended Catholic school in Denver before heading to Maryland for schooling at Georgetown Prep.
Cashman, who is 57 days older than Gorsuch, enrolled before his junior year of high school when his family moved to Maryland from Lexington, Kent., after his father gave up raising harness racing horses.
Cashman played baseball, basketball and football at Georgetown Prep, which had a graduating class of fewer than 100. A year behind Cashman and Gorsuch at the prep school were Douglas Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, and Hollywood film producer James Whitaker, best known for “8 Mile,” “Friday Night Lights” and “American Gangster.”
Cashman told the Daily News that he hasn’t kept in touch with Gorsuch since their high school days, but claims to have followed his professional career, which has risen from D.C., attorney to federal appellate judge to the youngest Supreme Court nominee in a quarter century.
“I kept up with his career through Colorado,” Cashman said. “He’s a good man. I’m not qualified to speak to his decision-making as a judge, but I think it would be hard to find fault with the person. He’ll obviously go through the vetting process, but the person I knew back then was a very smart, very humble, extremely bright young man.”
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