In 1910, President William Howard Taft transformed the first pitch into the popular ceremony it is today
But credit for transforming the first pitch into a true baseball tradition generally goes to Taft on that sunny spring day in 1910 when he attended the season opener with his wife, Helen, and Vice President James Sherman.according to a biography of pitcher Walter Johnson
. Taft agreed—but threw in a twist of his own. “As the bell rang to start the game, the President rose in the grandstand and prepared to throw,” Johnson said. “Gabby Street was standing at home plate, waiting for the throw, but suddenly the President shifted his position and aimed at me—and his aim was very good.”Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
The next day, sportswriters described the events of the game breathlessly. “There have been many openings of baseball seasons in Washington, but none such as yesterday, when the Nationals scored a 3 to 0 victory over the Athletics,” J. Ed Grillo wrote in the. “Every available foot of space was crowded with humanity. The stands were filled to suffocation.
Taft returned to the ballpark the following year, making the presidential Opening Day pitch a tradition that would endure until the modern era—with most presidents doing so at least once in their tenure. But the tradition has changed a bit through the years. Richard Nixon became the first president to throw out the Opening Day pitch outside of Washington, D.C., in 1973, when the city
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