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099    eAudiobook hoopla 
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100 1  Smith, Curt,|eauthor. 
245 14 The presidents and the pastime :|bthe history of baseball 
       and the White House|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cCurt 
       Smith. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2019. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by Barry Abrams. 
520    The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith's 
       extensive background as a former White House presidential 
       speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship 
       between baseball, the "most American" sport, and the U.S. 
       presidency. Smith, who USA Today calls "America's voice of
       authority on baseball broadcasting," starts before 
       America's birth, when would be presidents played baseball 
       antecedents. He charts how baseball cemented its 
       reputation as America's pastime in the nineteenth century,
       such presidents as Lincoln and Johnson playing town ball 
       or giving employees time off to watch. Smith tracks every 
       U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, 
       each chapter filled with anecdotes: Wilson buoyed by 
       baseball after suffering disability; a heroic FDR saving 
       baseball in World War II; Carter, taught the game by his 
       mother, Lillian; Reagan, airing baseball on radio that he 
       never saw by "re-creation." George H. W. Bush, for whom 
       Smith wrote, explains, "Baseball has everything." Smith, 
       having interviewed a majority of presidents since Richard 
       Nixon, shares personal stories on each. Throughout, The 
       Presidents and the Pastime provides a riveting narrative 
       of how America's leaders have treated baseball. From Taft 
       as the first president to throw the "first pitch" on 
       Opening Day in 1910 to Obama's "Go Sox!" scrawled in the 
       guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 
       2014, our presidents have deemed it the quintessentially 
       American sport, enriching both their office and the 
       nation. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Baseball|zUnited States|xHistory|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Presidents|zUnited States|xHistory|vAnecdotes. 
700 1  Abrams, Barry. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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