Bell Ringer Assignment

• CLIP #1: According to Phil Hochberg, what does the start of the baseball season mean for Washington, D.C.?
• CLIP #1: Based on the clip, what did President Franklin D. Roosevelt's throwing out of the first pitch of the 1934 season mean for the nation? What has been "lost," and why?
• CLIP #2: How do we know that baseball was an "important institution" as far back as the mid-1800s?
• CLIP #2: Did George Washington play 'baseball?' Explain your thinking, using what you hear in the clip.
• CLIP #2: According to Fred Frommer and Phil Hochberg, why has there been a close relationship between U.S. Presidents and baseball? Summarize the "myth" about Abraham Lincoln.
• CLIP #2: How did the Presidential "first pitch" tradition begin? Did William Howard Taft invent the "seventh inning stretch?" Explain.
• CLIP #3: Where was one of Washington D.C.'s "first baseball fields?"
• CLIP #3: Who was the "biggest baseball fan" during the Coolidge Administration? Which year's World Series winning team was the first to visit the White House?
• CLIP #4: Summarize what you hear in the video clip excerpt of Richard Nixon.
• CLIP #4: Based on the clip, describe Nixon's relationship with baseball.
• CLIP #5: What was the "context" of President George W. Bush's first pitch in the 2001 World Series? Describe what you see and hear in the video clip excerpt.
• CLIP #5: According to Phil Hochberg, what happened to President Herbert Hoover in 1931, Harry Truman in the early 1950s, and President Donald Trump in 2019?