B. Brenly said the 7th inn. stretch was started when President W. Taft stood up.

do you weigh more than taft linda?

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I guess some fan of the Cub will believe anything they hear from the corporate teet. From wikipedia:

There are many apocryphal stories about the origins of the seventh-inning stretch. One popular yarn claims that it began on account of President William Howard Taft. He had been in attendance at a Harrisburg Senators versus Philadelphia Phillies game on April 20, 1891 and had been uncomfortable in his chair; by the middle of the seventh, he could no longer take it, and stood up. The crowd mistook his action, and believed he had decided to leave, and out of respect, stood up as well. However, minutes later, after stretching out his legs, Taft sat back down as did the crowd. This tale is almost definitely false—evidence exists of the practice as early as 1869. It is also false because President Taft was not president until 1909. However, the seventh-inning stretch was not a formal practice in professional baseball games until the 1920s.

If its on wikipedia it has to be true, right?

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taft is credited with being one of the first ever to throw out the "first pitch"

the umps had given him the ball to look at before the game started, and taft threw the ball to the catcher

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Taft also started the wave.

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Jerry Taft, the meteorologist?

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Mac smokes Cigs with Taft at the ABC building.

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He invented rain and snow.

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