That was a great and natural looking ceremonial First Pitch he threw out Sunday night at the fourth World Series game. Throwing starts 20 seconds into this clip (with great Lyle Lovett national anthem before that):



On the gendered differences (or lack of them) behind Bill and Hillary Clinton's varying approaches when they threw out first pitches, see here. (Of all the articles I've written for the Atlantic, this was the most interesting to do the research for.)

On what may have been going through the elder George (HW) Bush's mind as he watched his son throw, see the opening sections of Richard Ben Cramer's wonderful What It Takes, which makes the drama and trauma of GHWB's First Pitch at the Astrodome into literature.

And by the way: nice work, Giants! Now, everybody vote.

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