| 词汇 | throwing out the first ball |
| 词源 | throwing out the first ball. This old baseball tradition dates to the day of portly President William Howard Taft (1857– 1930), who initiated the custom in 1910. Taft’s experience as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921–30) might have made him a great umpire. |
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