A presidential tradition that dates 100 years will continue Monday: President Obama will throw out the first pitch before the Washington Nationals take on the Philadelphia Phillies. It all started in 1910 when President William Howard Taft threw a ball from the box seats. There have been a few years, though, wherethe president has not been able to throw the first pitch in a game. Like in 1912, Taft wasn't able to throw the first pitch because the Titanic had just sunk. John Odell, curator of history and research at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, said that President Dwight Eisenhower may have had the best form. It was rumored that he had played for a semi-pro team while he was at West Point.
I think that its a great thing for the president to throw the first pitch of a game. A first pitch says a lot about how a president ought to behave, we want him to take the job seriously but not so seriously that he can't take a few hours to come out and be a regular guy like the rest of us and enjoy our national pastime. Its good to see Obama taking the time to throw the first pitch. He is a veteran when it comes to throwing first pitches. He threw one for a White Sox game in 2005 as the U.S. Senator from Illinois and he lived in Chicago. He also threw the first pitch of the 2009 All-Star Game. But even though he has experience, he doesn't have good form at all so its humorous to watch him throw.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/31/presidential.first.pitch/index.html
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