2006-07-22 17:38:50 · 9 answers · asked by Pete 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
It is credited to William Howard Taft but it is possbily older.
In 1882 at a game at Manhattan College in New York City, Manhattan coach Brother Jasper, also prefect of disciple, asked the student body to stand and stretch for a minute in the seventh inning before the game continued. It eventually became a ritual at all Manhattan games and then later to the Major Leagues in the 1880s when Manhattan played exhibiton games at the Polo Grounds.
It was then credited to President Taft on April 14, 1910 when he went to game at Griffith Park, the Washington Senators were playing the Philadelphia A's. Taft was becoming uncomfortable in his seat. In the seventh inning, Taft could not stand it any longer and stood up during the seventh inning. Everyone else in the stands stood up, out of respect, because they thought he was leaving. A few minutes later, Taft sat back down and the crowd followed suit.
Taft is very much credited with being the first President to throw out the first pitch on opening day. It was at the same game that Taft did this deed. Umpire Billy Evans handed the ball to Taft after the managers had been introduced. Evans asked the President to throw over to home plate. Taft was happy to do so and so the traditon has continued ever since, exception was Jimmy Carter.
I hope that can either make thing clear or start a new debate on baseball folklore.
2006-07-23 04:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
President William Howard Taft. The story is that he was attending a game in 1910, and happened to stand up and stretch after the top of the seventh inning. Somehow it became a tradition and has lived on to this day.
2006-07-23 16:28:01 · answer #2 · answered by frenchy62 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 13:58:21 · answer #3 · answered by mijarez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It started when Franklin Delenor Roosevelt. He needed to use the restroom in the middle of the seventh inning. So the game was stopped untill he returned. I am not sure if "take me out to the ballgame" started then or not. But it would make since. The people were bored, so the organist played the song. It caught on and became a baseball tradition.
2006-07-22 18:46:45 · answer #4 · answered by signs4_him 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Taft
2006-07-22 17:42:21 · answer #5 · answered by MaryBeth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Howard Taft in 1910
2006-07-22 17:48:05 · answer #6 · answered by Rick H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poster who said Taft is correct. He just happened to stand up during a game, and as a show of respect, the rest of the crowd stood up also, and so a tradition was born.
2006-07-22 19:20:49 · answer #7 · answered by michael s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ben Dover and Jack Hoff.
2006-07-22 21:12:13 · answer #8 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fdr I think but not sure
2006-07-22 17:41:42 · answer #9 · answered by mochagirl75 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋