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According to Baseball Reference, in the 2007 season there were 942 batters hit by a pitch in the National League and 813 batter hit by a pitch in the American League.
William Howard Taft was the first to open the major league baseball season by throwing out the first pitch on April 14, 1910. McKinley threw out the first pitch in a minor league game as governor of Ohio before he was President.
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60 feet, 6 inches
In general, add aboout 20 mph because you are calculating the different pitching lengths. Little league pitchers throw from 45 feet, major leaguers throw from 60.5 feet. For example, a little league pitcher throwing a 70 mph pitch is equivalent to a major league player throwing about a 90 mph pitch.
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Major league baseball pitcher is remembered for his outstanding record in 1904. In that season, his pitching record was 41 wins and only 12 losses. He is also remembered for a wild pitch that cost the New York Highlanders a pennant. This team was later named the NY Yankees.
The first President to throw out a first pitch in Major League Baseball was William Howard Taft in 1910. So none of the earlier Presidents did. Since then, every US President has tossed a pitch in either the All Star Game, the World Series, or the first game of the baseball season.