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Fun presidential baseball trivia

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 07:53 AM

Since William Howard Taft tossed out the first pitch on Opening Day in 1910, every president since has opened a baseball season. All but one, that is. Can you name that one president?

seawolf17 Jun 04 2008 08:21 AM

I'll guess Gerald Ford.

AG/DC Jun 04 2008 08:21 AM

John Paul I?

metirish Jun 04 2008 08:22 AM

Nixon?

DocTee Jun 04 2008 08:48 AM

Reagan

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 08:48 AM

Three swings and misses!

Benjamin Grimm Jun 04 2008 08:49 AM

Carter

HahnSolo Jun 04 2008 08:50 AM

Carter's my guess too.

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 08:50 AM

Trying to insert an image here of Ford throwing out a first pitch. No on the Gipper!

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 08:53 AM

Sweet! That's the first time I've ever inserted a photo properly. And: Correct on Jimmy Carter! A big surprise to me, considering he was an avid softball player.

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 08:55 AM

metirish Jun 04 2008 09:05 AM

I love the look on the cops face in the Reagan picture.

seawolf17 Jun 04 2008 09:12 AM

Really? Jimmy Carter? He's probably attended more baseball games than any other president. He was the first guy I figured had done it.

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 09:15 AM

The guy just over the shoulder of Peter Uberroth is a Secret Service agent who wrote a neat book about protecting Reagan. He wrote a lot about that game, and there was a reason he wasn't allowed to throw from the mound. But he said Reagan tried to buy hot dogs from a vendor, then realized he wasn't carrying money -- so a bunch of guys reached into their pockets to throw some bills his way to pay the guy. Nixon looks so stiff. I actually met him in the press box at Yankee Stadium back in 1987. My first time shaking hands with a president.

Benjamin Grimm Jun 04 2008 09:27 AM

Is that Mickey Mantle behind Nixon? And of course, that's manager Ted Williams in the Senators uniform.

soupcan Jun 04 2008 09:37 AM

="metsguyinmichigan"] I know Nixon was in the White House 1969 - 1974 and I know the Senators became the Rangers in '72 but I never put together or thought that Nixon was in the White House when the Senators were still a team. In my mind, Nixon's presidency was not so long ago but the second generation Senators had been gone for quite some time. Guess I imagined that DC hadn't had a team for much longer than it did.

MFS62 Jun 04 2008 10:58 AM

Note to KC. That is not me standing behind Reagan in that picture. Honest. But now I have to go out and look for a long lost twin. Rats! Later

HahnSolo Jun 04 2008 02:20 PM

They need gloves to throw out the first pitch...why?

seawolf17 Jun 04 2008 02:48 PM

They bring their gloves so they can catch a foul ball. Duh.

HahnSolo Jun 04 2008 03:10 PM

="metsguyinmichigan"] That partially obscured black kid to the right of Nixon: can that be Walt from Lost? Oh, my, they really can travel back in time from the island.

Centerfield Jun 04 2008 03:21 PM

FDR

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 10:27 PM

="Centerfield"]FDR

metsguyinmichigan Jun 04 2008 10:28 PM

Woodrow Wilson Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge, though his wife Grace was the big fan.