SP453 Baseball


SP453
First Pitch

Baseball has always had a special relationship to the presidency. George Washington and his men played an early version of baseball at Valley Forge. Abraham Lincoln's love of the game was so well known that an 1860 political cartoon showed him on a baseball diamond. In 1948, as Captain of the Yale baseball team George Bush accepts from Babe Ruth a copy of his autobiography, "The Babe Ruth Story". William Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the "First Pitch" in 1910. Rpnald Reagan worked as a Radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs. John F. Kennedy shows great form after throwing out the first pitch to begin the Washington Senators season of 1961.

Baseball has always had a special relationship to the presidency. George Washington and his men played an early version of baseball at Valley Forge. Abraham Lincoln's love of the game was so well known that an 1860 political cartoon showed him on a baseball diamond. In 1948, as Captain of the Yale baseball team George Bush accepts from Babe Ruth a copy of his autobiography, "The Babe Ruth Story". William Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the "First Pitch" in 1910. Rpnald Reagan worked as a Radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs. John F. Kennedy shows great form after throwing out the first pitch to begin the Washington Senators season of 1961.