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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Here’s some weird trivia that I have found: Though George Bush used to be a pitcher, Clinton was the first to pitch from the mound and make it all the way to the catcher.
All that sex didn’t hurt his performance, his April throw made it over the plate. Perhaps it was helped by a little romance. Maybe the night before, he had a date.
The first pitch is thrown by the President and a fair new season is underway. It was fat Taft who set that precedent in the Spring of baseball’s opening day.
William Howard Taft, of course, inaugurated the presidential custom of throwing out the first ball of the baseball season at the Washington ballpark.
Taft was a great baseball fan whose visits to the ballpark were not confined to ceremonial duties. He is pictured above attending a game as a Supreme Court justice in the 1920s.
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"Taft Day," West End Grounds, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1909:
He's got meetings and things, the White House explained.
The Washington Post observes:
Except for when the world was at war, only two other presidents, Woodrow Wilson and Richard M. Nixon, missed Opening Day ceremonies two years in a row. And Wilson had suffered a stroke. #
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