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Washington Nationals Have Invited President Joe Biden to Throw the Ceremonial First Pitch

SI's Tom Verducci shares the history behind the tradition of U.S. Presidents throwing the ceremonial first pitch

The Washington Nationals have already invited President Joe Biden to throw the ceremonial first pitch of the 2021 MLB season. Ever since 1910, when President William Howard Taft started the ceremonial first pitch tradition, every sitting president had participated until Donald Trump broke the streak by not throwing out a first pitch.