The Presidential First Pitch
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Growing up, I never really got into baseball mostly due to paternal influence. My father has always found the sports of football and basketball more appealing and by the time baseball season rolled around it was time for other outdoors activities. So I was largely unaware of the presidential link to baseball until I saw this article and I found it interesting. Both the Baseball Hall of Fame and The White House have pages describing the link between sitting American presidents and baseball. This Washington Post article further describes the history of the sitting presidents throwing out the first pitch on opening day for the local DC team. President Bush honored the tradition in 2005 when the Nationals brought baseball back to the nation’s capitol after a 33 year absense, but did not throw the opening pitch for them in 2006 or this year. Unless the world was at war, only Richard Nixon (twice) and Woodrow Wilson (after he had suffered a stroke) missed the opening day ceremonies. |
Cheney threw it out last year. He was roundly booed by the crowd. Just search on “cheney first pitch” on YouTube for plenty of videos.
Comment by Tommy — April 8, 2007 @ 3:02 pm