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Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, tosses a baseball at the opening of a “sandlot world series” in Washington, D.C., May 5, 1922.
Biographies & Portraits
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
White House and American baseball history have been intertwined for more than a century, creating a legacy of presidential fans,...
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and...
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not...
Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover had experience as wife of a man eminent in...
White House history and American baseball history have been intertwined for more than a century, creating a rich legacy of...
Just how does the president celebrate Presidents’ Day? Throughout the more than 200-year history of the White House, presidents themselves ha...
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
When President Herbert Hoover laid the cornerstone of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., on February 20, 1933, the president...
When people think of President Herbert Hoover and baseball, many recall the famous story from 1930, when Babe Ruth signed a...