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The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House
Author: Curt Smith
The Presidents and the Pastimedraws on Curt Smiths extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historicrelationship between baseball, the most American sport, and the U.S. presidency. Smith, who USA TODAYcalls Americas voice of authority on baseball broadcasting, starts before Americas birth, when wouldbe presidents played baseball antecedents. He charts how baseball cemented its reputation as Americas pastime in the nineteenth century, such presidents as Lincoln and Johnson playing town ball or giving employees time off to watch. Smith tracks every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, each chapter filled with anecdotes: Wilson buoyed by baseball after suffering disability; a heroic FDR saving baseball in World War II; Carter, taught the game by his mother, Lillian; Reagan, airing baseball on radio that he never sawby re-creation. George H. W. Bush, for whom Smith wrote, explains, Baseball has everything. Smith, having interviewed a majority of presidents since Richard Nixon, shares personal stories on each. Throughout, The Presidents and the Pastime provides a riveting narrative of how Americas leaders have treated baseball. From Taft as the first president to throw the first pitch on Opening Day in 1910 to Obamas Go Sox! scrawled in the guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, our presidents have deemed it the quintessentially American sport, enriching both their office and the nation.
The Presidents and the Pastimedraws on Curt Smiths extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historicrelationship between baseball, the most American sport, and the U.S. presidency. Smith, who USA TODAYcalls Americas voice of authority on baseball broadcasting, starts before Americas birth, when wouldbe presidents played baseball antecedents. He charts how baseball cemented its reputation as Americas pastime in the nineteenth century, such presidents as Lincoln and Johnson playing town ball or giving employees time off to watch. Smith tracks every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, each chapter filled with anecdotes: Wilson buoyed by baseball after suffering disability; a heroic FDR saving baseball in World War II; Carter, taught the game by his mother, Lillian; Reagan, airing baseball on radio that he never sawby re-creation. George H. W. Bush, for whom Smith wrote, explains, Baseball has everything. Smith, having interviewed a majority of presidents since Richard Nixon, shares personal stories on each. Throughout, The Presidents and the Pastime provides a riveting narrative of how Americas leaders have treated baseball. From Taft as the first president to throw the first pitch on Opening Day in 1910 to Obamas Go Sox! scrawled in the guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, our presidents have deemed it the quintessentially American sport, enriching both their office and the nation.
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