President Franklin Roosevelt Baseball Game Attendance Log

Franklin Roosevelt will always be remembered as the U.S. President who gave the "green light" to Major League Baseball, but the truth was he was a true fan.

Going to the games was more than a publicity trip and Baseball Magazine once wrote, "Roosevelt enjoys himself at a ball game as much as a kid on Christmas morning."

Baseball Almanac Top Quote

"I do not play well." - Franklin Roosevelt

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Baseball Games Attended While In Office

04-12-1933 Washington, D.C. Senators 4 Threw out first pitch.
Athletics 1
10-05-1933 Washington, D.C. Senators 4 Threw out first pitch in Game 3
of the 1933 World Series.
Giants 0
04-24-1934 Washington, D.C. Senators 0 Threw out first pitch.
Red Sox 5
04-17-1935 Washington, D.C. Senators 4 Game scheduled for 04-16 (rained out).
Threw out first pitch next day.
Athletics 2
04-14-1936 Washington, D.C. Senators 1 Threw out first pitch.
Yankees 0
10-02-1936 New York, NY Giants 4 Threw out first pitch in game 2
of the 1936 World Series.
Yankees 18
04-19-1937 Washington, D.C. Senators 3 Threw out first pitch.
Athletics 4
07-07-1937 Washington, D.C. A.L. 8 Threw out first pitch and was
1st to attend an All-Star Game.
N.L. 3
04-18-1938 Washington, D.C. Senators 12 Threw out first pitch.
Athletics 8
04-16-1940 Washington, D.C. Senators 0 Threw out first pitch & hit a
Washington Post camera.
Red Sox 1
04-14-1941 Washington, D.C. Senators 0 Threw out first pitch.
Yankees 3
President Franklin Roosevelt Baseball Games Attendence Log
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Did you know that in 1900 future President Franklin Roosevelt actually managed a baseball team called the Grotons?

President Franklin Roosevelt threw out more ceremonial first pitches than any other U.S. President in history.

Every single spring, even during World War II, Clark Griffith presented President Roosevelt with his presidential pass and told him of contributions by baseball to the war effort.