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Baseball Fans Boo President Trump at World Series
Usually, an American President drops by the World Series to toss out the first pitch. This year the Washington Nationals were in the World Series for the first time. The District of Columbia had not hosted a World Series game in Major League baseball since 1938 when the Washington Senators appeared.
However, the Homestead Grays playing in Washington did win the last Negro League World Series in 1948 against the Birmingham Black Barrons, without performing any of their home games in Washington during the Series.
Hosting a World Series game in the nation’s capital is a big deal. President Barack Obama and the Bushes would have jumped at a chance to throw out the first pitch in the first World Series game in the District in 71 years.
This year President Trump, the First Lady, and a host of the President’s political friends took in a portion of game five of the World Series, made possible because the Nationals dropped their first two home games after taking the first two in Houston. Noticeably absent from the President’s entourage was Barron, his youngest son.
Be that as it may, Trump was not invited to toss out the first pitch. He had a deal with Major League Baseball that he would not arrive until after the game had started and would leave before the completion of the game.
