Booing failing Presidents at the World Series: A Great American Tradition

[Julian Englis]

National Pastime Museum: Herbert Hoover Gets Booed at the World Series

Politicians in modern America know that being introduced at a sports event comes with some risk. Sports fans, especially after a beer or two, are pretty uninhibited about letting their feelings known for elected officials. As fans have discovered, stadium security will not throw them out onto the street if they boo.

It’s pretty much open season, and if you are an office holder, you would be wise to check your poll numbers before agreeing to an introduction.

Herbert Hoover, the nation’s 31st president, must have felt pretty confident when he decided to take in a World Series game in 1931. There really were no poll numbers to refer to at the time, nor was there much history of a president being poorly treated at large gatherings. (Let’s call Ford’s Theater in Washington a medium gathering.) It was still a time when respect for the office tended to win the day.

Hoover had been to a number of games before, maintaining the tradition of throwing out the first pitch of the season and also going to Philadelphia for games in both the 1929 and 1930 World Series.

I guess we can tell Morning Joe to blow. He may think it's a petty response, but tRump is a petty tyrant.

[pecosbob]

1. Morning Joe can go

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[Gothmog]

3. For this thread

Link to tweet

[maveric]

4. I was at the 92 MLB All Star game in San Diego

GHW Bush was in attendance as well as baseball great Ted Williams. Williams threw out the first pitch and got a five minute plus applause. Then the prez came out to throw a pitch when 78,000 fans Booed the shit out of him.
Clinton won the election that year.
Trump is toast.

[crickets]

5. Interesting article about Hoover - K&R

[tavernier]

6. Hoover attended another game.

You can bet woodpecker head won’t.