Baseball Tory's Who's Who entry

Writing in the Observer, Andrew Rawnsley reports that Michael Howard, leader of the UK's Conservative opposition, is such a big baseball fan that he even lists a favourite team in his Who's Who entry, which the journalist uses as evidence of Howard's historically pro-American outlook:

[Howard] has left himself terribly exposed to the charges of opportunism that have inevitably followed from both hostile and usually friendly quarters. There was the placement of his article in an anti-war paper when the Tory leader's entire career has been founded on such strong pro-Americanism that he even lists a favourite baseball team in Who's Who.

As this blog attests, however, the logic of this arguement is a bit weak. There's nothing inherently "American" or "pro-American" about being a very public baseball fan.

Besides, he's a Mets fan. I just hope he finds ways of losing elections as creative as his team do for losing Major League ballgames.