Eight months after the their World Series victory, Hillary Clinton invited the Yankees over to the White House. "The fact is, I've always been a Yankees fan," the first lady told the "Today" show's Katie Couric, despite her well-known allegiance to her hometown team, the Cubs. Ms. Clinton elaborated: "I am [also] a Cubs fan. But I needed an American League team, because when you're from Chicago, you cannot root for both the Cubs and the Sox. I mean, there's a dividing line that you can't cross there. So as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees."

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