WASHINGTON, D.C.—House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made his return to the baseball diamond for the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity this week, a year after surviving a near-fatal attack. He is thankful to God for His many miracles and the U.S. Capitol Police that he was able to once again join his team on the field and make the first play of the game.
Read on to see how Whip Scalise’s Southeast Louisiana district is responding to his return to the game.
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Reclaiming Bases: Steve Scalise to Return to Baseball Diamond a Year after Near-Fatal Shooting
Few surveying the blood- and bullet-strewn Virginia ballfield where Steve Scalise was shot a year ago would’ve expected the Jefferson Parish Republican to be where he is now.
He’ll be throwing on a baseball uniform Thursday evening — most likely topped off with a gold LSU jersey in a nod to his beloved alma mater in Baton Rouge — and heading to a charity congressional ballgame between Democrats and Republicans at Washington Nationals Park.
Scalise is penciled into the GOP’s starting lineup at his old spot, second base, coach and Texas GOP Rep. Roger Williams told the Associated Press. The scrappy 52-year-old might even get a chance to square up in the batter’s box against New Orleans Rep. Cedric Richmond, a longtime friend and the Democrats’ star pitcher.
Scalise might not be diving for grounders or bounding across the field — he’s walking again, usually with the aid of a pair of purple-and-gold crutches, but can’t yet run — but little else has eluded him in his remarkable comeback from a 7.62 mm rifle round that smashed his hip and nearly killed him.
He’s reasserted himself as a rising force among Republicans, throwing himself back into his job as the House majority whip after three months in the hospital, and has become one of the most powerful GOP politicians on Capitol Hill.
Scalise’s future hung in the balance on June 14, 2017 — bleeding badly as police officers took on the gunman, fading as he waited for a helicopter, unconscious and shuttling between surgeries at the hospital. His future now appears in many ways brighter than ever.
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