IT WAS BASEBALL'S OPENING DAY ON APRIL 14, 1910.
PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT ATTENDED THE GAME AND BEGAN THE GRAND BASEBALL TRADITION OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT THROWING OUT THE "FIRST PITCH" ON OPENING DAY.
WHAT STRANGE OCCURENCE MARRED THIS HISTORIC DAY?
THE OCCASION WAS MARRED WHEN VICE PRESIDENT JAMES SHERMAN WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS BY A FOUL BALL.
THE BALL WAS HIT BY PHILADELPHIA THIRD BASEMAN FRANK "HOME RUN" BAKER.
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