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And on this day in history, April 14, 1910, President William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to throw out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game.
President Joe Biden will not be throwing out the first pitch on Major League Baseball's Opening Day this year, but fans curious about how he would have done can go to the videotape to find out ...
In Washington DC, the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day has often been a sitting president.
April 2, 2006 — That was a local newspaper's account of President William Howard Taft throwing out the first pitch on April 14, 1910, as the Philadelphia Athletics took on the Washington ...
March 28 is opening day for the 2019 Major League Baseball season, which in previous years has seen its fair share of politicians throwing out the ceremonial first pitch.