President Woodrow Wilson Baseball Related Quotations by Baseball Almanac

President Woodrow Wilson Baseball Related Quotations

Woodrow Wilson was a serious fan and during his freshman year at Davidson College he played baseball. Wilson was the first President to ever attend a World Series game and he never once used his Presidential Pass. Why? He payed for every game he ever attended.

"There is no earthly use in my discussing the baseball situation referred to by ex-Governor Tener." - Woodrow Wilson

Quotations From Woodrow Wilson

"How am I to escape this? There is no earthly use in my discussing the baseball situation referred to by ex-Governor Tener."

"To my friend, Ty Cobb - 1913." - Inscription on Cobb's favorite autograph

Quotations About Woodrow Wilson

"A big enough boy to enjoy the national game - and a man big enough to guide our country through its greatest crisis." - 1917 World Series program with President Wilson throwing out the first pitch of the 1915 World Series (game two).

"Ever neck was crained to glimpse the 'first American' as he rose to toss the ball to Walter Johnson." - The Sporting News

"He (President Woodrow Wilson) usually stayed right to the end of the games and I would say he knew baseball better than the average fan." - Al Schacht

"Wilson would be a good player if he weren't so damned lazy." - Comment by the Team Captain of Wilson's Davidson College

Quotations From & About Woodrow Wilson

Did you know that diagrams from President Woodrow Wilson's boyhood diary show extremely detailed sketches of baseball diamonds?

In 1918 and 1919, President Woodrow Wilson missed the openers due to World War I. His Vice President Marshall and Navy Secretary Franklin Roosevelt attended instead.

President Woodrow Wilson had a room in his private residence called 'the dugout' where he went to read and talk about baseball with friends & associates.

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