Blake Hall
President William Howard Taft was the first “Leader of the Free World” to ever throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game in 1910, putting some mustard on it at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. (where the old Senators used to play).
Since then, every U.S. President has thrown out a pitch at least once, but until Ronald Reagan it was from their seat in the stands. The Gipper altered the tradition when he chose to go on the field at a Baltimore Orioles game in the 1980s and take the hill.
The clip above shows a bunch of the pitches from recent memory, including the grandaddy of them all: George W. Bush tossing a dart at Yankee Stadium soon after September 11, 2001.