President Calvin Coolidge welcomed the Washington Nationals at the White House

Grand Old Partisan celebrates more than seventeen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Today, I commemorate Washington's baseball team visiting the President. September 1st 1924, Calvin Coolidge "shook hands with all of the players and told them that he was mighty proud of the showing the Nationals have made to date and was confident they would keep up their good work and return to the capital in October for the World Series."

And they did. Coolidge spoke at a parade in their honor:

"As the head of an enterprise which transacts some business and maintains a considerable staff in this town, I have a double satisfaction in welcoming home the victorious Washington baseball team. First, you bring the laurels from one of the hardest-fought contests in all the history of the national game. Second, I feel hopeful that with this happy result now assured it will be possible for the people of Washington gradually to resume interest in the ordinary concerns of life."

"They are a great band, these armored knights of the bat and ball. They are held up to high standard of honor on the field, which they have seldom betrayed. While baseball remains our national game, our national tastes will be on a higher level and our national ideals on a finer foundation. By bringing the baseball pennant to Washington you have made the National Capital more truly the center of worthy and honorable national aspirations."

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