Opening Day 2017: Baseball’s best and worst presidential first pitches

Published March 31, 2017 9:16pm ET



Sunday and Monday mark Opening Day for all 30 Major League Baseball teams, an annual rite that ushers in the spring.

Every sitting president going back to President William Howard Taft has thrown out a first pitch, according to Baseball-Almanac.com. President Trump won’t continue that tradition this year. Trump, citing a scheduling conflict, turned down an offer to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Monday at Nationals Park.

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