Our national pastime is returning. Fans are ready for the two words they’ve longed to hear since last October: “Play ball!” It’s the perfect time to revisit a presidential baseball secret.

Of all our presidents, President Dwight Eisenhower may have been the game’s biggest fan. He was crazy about it. The man who brought down Hitler and later gave us interstate highways was a born jock. And he was a pretty good one, too.

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