The last “first pitch” by a sitting U.S. president on Major League Baseball’s opening day was a left-handed hurl by President Barack Obama in Washington on April 5, 2010.
President Obama lightly trolled the Nationals Park faithful—whom he honored via windbreaker—from the mound when revealing his cap, supporting his boyhood-beloved Chicago White Sox.
Consequently, a playful buzz of disappointment broke out amongst the 41,290-strong crowd. Those same fans soon let an ear-to-ear grinning, unfazed President Obama hear it with more not-so-subdued “ooo’s” followed by applause when the 48-year-old southpaw nearly sent the ball sailing over “Mr. National” Ryan Zimmerman’s head….