US President Donald Trump is in talks to make a ceremonial first pitch next Monday when the Washington Nationals open their Major League Baseball campaign at home against Miami, Politico reported Tuesday.
The political news website also reported that Trump might spend an inning in the booth with the television announcing crew for the afternoon contest.
For more than a century, US Presidents have at times appeared in order to launch the campaign of “America’s pastime” and both Barack Obama in 2010 and George W. Bush in 2008 hurled ceremonial opening pitches at Nationals Park.
The tradition began with William Howard Taft in 1910 when he threw out the first pitch for the Washington Senators. In all, 13 US Presidents have made the ceremonial throw from team’s from the nation’s capital over the years.
F. P. Santangelo, a television analyst for the Nationals, posted an Instagram photo on Monday from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
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