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Why didn't McKinley throw the first pitch?

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Prior to about 1910, Baseball was considered a sport for the "lower classes," an event viewed as beneath the dignity of a U.S. President. It's the same reason you won't see a U.S. President today at the opening of a WWE pay per view event.

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