Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution. He attended quite a few games as President but he was often booed because of the great depression occurring in the country.
Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.
I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran 23 to 61, you yearn for something more than a 5 to 2 score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.