WASHINGTON _ Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling suggested this week he would consider mounting a challenge to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018.
"One of the things I'd like to do is be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics," Schilling said Monday to WRKO-AM in Boston, according to the Providence Journal.
Schilling recently hinted at his future political aspirations in a comment thread on his Facebook page. He said he would run for state office, and then the White House in eight years. But if Hillary Clinton were elected, he said, he'd make a run for the presidency in four years.
Schilling wouldn't be the first former baseball player to run for federal office. Former GOP Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, a former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies, was among the most famous baseball players to serve in Congress. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.
Schilling posted a 216-146 record in 20 Major League seasons and won four Cy Young awards. He was a mainstay on the Red Sox championship teams in 2001 and 2004.
He was fired from his job as an ESPN baseball analyst earlier this year after a Facebook post about the LGBT bathroom issue in North Carolina and was suspended for a month last year for a tweet comparing radical Islamists to Nazis.
