NATION : Bush Checks Bases in Hope of Throwing Opening Day Pitch
President Bush, his arm and glove ready, is checking all bases to see if he can throw out a first pitch in the lockout-delayed 1990 baseball season, the White House said today.
“He wants to go” to an opening game, “but I don’t know when,” press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said just hours after major league baseball owners and players agreed to end their labor dispute and begin the season a week late.
Bush, a former Yale first baseman who keeps his glove in a desk drawer, threw out the ceremonial first pitch last year at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. He had been scheduled to take the mound this year in Cincinnati on April 2.
But the baseball lockout pushed back Opening Day to April 9, and the President’s 1990 baseball debut is uncertain.
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