President Andrew Johnson Baseball Related Quotations by Baseball Almanac

President Andrew Johnson Baseball Related Quotations

Andrew Johnson was the first President to be in the White House when it was obivous that games with bats and balls were truly the chosen form of entertainment of Americans. The version he watched outside the White House was further away from the more modern version being played in the North but he loved it anyway.

"Our National Game." - Andrew Johnson

Quotations From Andrew Johnson

"...our National Game."

Quotations About Andrew Johnson

"Andrew Johnson set the whole White House entourage up on plush straight back chairs along the first-base line and that day became the first President to watch an inter-city baseball game." - I. Kirk Sale article

"He became so caught up with the prospect of a two-inter city match between the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Athletics and Brooklyn Atlantics that he gave government clerks and employees time off to watch." - Sport Magazine

"We hope you will not scorn this humble offer of a membership in our National Game, but, accept it as a token of our esteem for you as a man, our veneration as a patriot, and our admiration as a statesman." - letter from Enterprise Baseball Club

Quotations From & About Andrew Johnson

President Andrew Johnson was a special guest of honor at the opening of a new ballpark in August, 1867, for the National Base Ball Club of Washington.

Did you know that President Andrew Johnson was the first U.S. President to invite an entire baseball team into the White House?

The National Archives in Washington, D.C. has more than twenty honorary ball club memberships that were accepted by President Andrew Johnson during his tenure.

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