On this date in 1910, before a matchup between the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Athletics, President William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the first pitch on the major league's opening day.
Though the 2023 baseball season is already underway (with the Phillies and Nats in a heated race for most dreadful franchise), we'll mark the anniversary of the inaugural ceremonial toss with this cover of 1996 song "Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)" from Orlando, Florida boy band Backstreet Boys by Berlin, Germany rockabilly group The Baseballs.
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