President Franklin Roosevelt Baseball Game Attendance Log

President Franklin Roosevelt Baseball Game Attendance Log

Franklin Roosevelt will always be remembered as the U.S. President who gave the "green light" to Major League Baseball, but the truth was he was a true fan.

Going to the games was more than a publicity trip and Baseball Magazine once wrote, "Roosevelt enjoys himself at a ball game as much as a kid on Christmas morning."

"I do not play well." - Franklin Roosevelt

President Franklin Roosevelt Baseball Games Attended While In Office
Date	Location	Match Up	Notes
04-12-1933	Washington, D.C.	Senators 4	Threw out first pitch.
		Athletics 1
10-05-1933	Washington, D.C.	Senators 4	Threw out first pitch in Game 3 of the 1933 World Series.
		Giants 0
04-24-1934	Washington, D.C.	Senators 0	Threw out first pitch.
		Red Sox 5
04-17-1935	Washington, D.C.	Senators 4	Game scheduled for 04-16 (rained out). Threw out first pitch next day.
		Athletics 2
04-14-1936	Washington, D.C.	Senators 1	Threw out first pitch.
		Yankees 0
10-02-1936	New York, NY	Giants 4	Threw out first pitch in game 2 of the 1936 World Series.
		Yankees 18
04-19-1937	Washington, D.C.	Senators 3	Threw out first pitch.
		Athletics 4
07-07-1937	Washington, D.C.	A.L. 8	Threw out first pitch and was 1^st to attend an All-Star Game.
		N.L. 3
04-18-1938	Washington, D.C.	Senators 12	Threw out first pitch.
		Athletics 8
04-16-1940	Washington, D.C.	Senators 0	Threw out first pitch & hit a Washington Post camera.
		Red Sox 1
04-14-1941	Washington, D.C.	Senators 0	Threw out first pitch.
		Yankees 3
President Franklin Roosevelt Baseball Games Attendence Log

Did you know that in 1900 future President Franklin Roosevelt actually managed a baseball team called the Grotons?

President Franklin Roosevelt threw out more ceremonial first pitches than any other U.S. President in history.

Every single spring, even during World War II, Clark Griffith presented President Roosevelt with his presidential pass and told him of contributions by baseball to the war effort.

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