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.
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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Rip Sewell is credited with inventing the eephus pitch.
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Since the tradition was began by Taft in 1910, Jimmy Carter was the only president who never threw out an opening day pitch . He did throw out the first pitch at a World Series game in 1079.
William Taft started the tradition of presidents throwing a ceremonial first pitch. He did it on opening day (April 14) of 1910, throwing the first pitch to Walter Johnson. One of his predecessors, William McKinley, had thrown a ceremonial first pitch when he was Governor of Ohio, but not when he was president.
William Howard Taft
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.
You can do it for 220,000. - GM SD Padres.
Maybe because he had some kind of surgery or First Lady did.