The Washington Times, April 3rd, 2006
Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"The game of base ball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics."
- President William Howard Taft, 1910
Everybody knew the nation's 27th president loved the national pastime. He played it as a much slimmer youth in Cincinnati and thoroughly enjoyed his first unofficial appearance at a Washington Senators game the previous season. So it was no surprise when William Howard Taft decided to attend the team's opening game on the afternoon of April 14, 1910.
Probably the game came as a wel...
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