This day in baseball: First presidential pass
Posted: May 16, 2019 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, history, National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, President of the United States, sports, Theodore Roosevelt Leave a commentThough he wasn’t exactly the game’s biggest fan, on May 16, 1907, the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues issued the first presidential lifetime pass to President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt preferred sports that were “more vigorous,” though he later admitted that he enjoyed watching his son Quentin participate in baseball. Nevertheless, Roosevelt never attended a major league baseball game.
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