This day in baseball: President Taft attends a Pirates game
Posted: May 29, 2022 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Exposition Park, history, Major League Baseball, MLB, Pittsburgh Pirates, POTUS, President of the United States, sports, William Howard Taft Leave a commentWilliam Howard Taft became the first sitting U.S. President to attend a baseball game outside of Washington, D.C. on May 29, 1909. Taft joined 14,000 fans at Pittsburgh’s Exposition Park to watch the Pirates play the Cubs, though he didn’t bring the Pirates any good luck that day. The Bucs lost the contest, 8-3.
