Collection Presidents & Baseball
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
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Who was the first president to meet an organized baseball team at the White House?
August 30, 1865 … President Andrew Johnson met the Washington Nationals and the Brooklyn Atlantics at the White House. This is the first known official meeting between a president and an organized baseball team at the executive mansion.
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