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"Andrew Johnson set the whole White House entourage up on plush straight back chairs along the first-base line and that day became the first President to watch an inter-city baseball game." - I. Kirk Sale article
"He became so caught up with the prospect of a two-inter city match between the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Athletics and Brooklyn Atlantics that he gave government clerks and employees time off to watch." -
Sport Magazine
"We hope you will not scorn this humble offer of a membership in our National Game, but, accept it as a token of our esteem for you as a man, our veneration as a patriot, and our admiration as a statesman." - letter from Enterprise Baseball Club
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