(Maybe that should be “Don’t Taft me, bro.”)
Our favorite NPR program featured piece of baseball this trivia in its “Not My Job” segment with guest Duke Fatir of The Four Tops. The three questions all had to do with “bottoms” (heh).
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PETER SAGAL: Last question, President William Howard Taft had the biggest bottom of any president to date.
MO ROCCA: Yeah.
SAGAL: As a role in his legacy, according to legend, A: he claimed his bottom would tingle whenever he should veto a piece of legislation? That’s how he knew.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: B: his butt was too big for a chair at a baseball game, and when he stood up to stretch, he began the tradition of the seventh inning stretch? Or C: what was then the square office became the oval office…
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: …because he needed more room to turn around?
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
FAKIR: I like B.
SAGAL: You’re going to go for B, the seventh inning stretch? Is that your choice?
ROCCA: I think it is.
FAKIR: Yeah.
SAGAL: Yes, that’s it.
ROCCA: Yes, it is.
SAGAL: That’s the…
SALIE: Wow.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
(SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: The fact is that Taft became the first president to attend a baseball game and threw out the first pitch. The legend is that he started the seventh inning stretch by standing up in the seventh inning to relieve his cramped condition.
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