A huge and lively group of Teddy Roosevelt fans from Texas led a cheering Nationals Park crowd of 21,767 on Thursday night as Livan Hernandez and the Washington Nationals completed their first series sweep of the season.
No matter where you sat in the Park, their cheers were hard to ignore. Even play-by-play man Bob Carpenter took
notice on the MASN broadcast.
The group included 90 students and their chaperones from Hillwood Middle school in Ft. Worth Texas.
Their U.S. History teacher, Brian Ketcham, stumbled across LetTeddyWin.com in 2009, and showed it to the kids as they were planning their 8th-grade trip to Washington.
“We let the kids vote on shirts for the trip,” Ketchum said before the game. “I showed them the blog and they thought it was hilarious. So, they voted for the Roosevelt shirt. We want to cheer on Teddy very loudly.”
And loudly they did, as cheers of “Let’s Go Teddy” and Let’s Go Nationals” reverberated from Upper Deck section 232 throughout the
game’s final 5 innings.
On Thursday, the group visited the White House (where they ran into the POTUS), the National Zoo, the Holocaust Museum, and the National Archives — all before heading to Nationals Park, but group member Blake Emery declared their Nationals Park visit “the greatest night ever” — a sentiment that seemed to be shared by many.
They are chronicling their adventures at coachketchum.com.
LET TEDDY WIN 
Last night was Thursday, by the way.
Thanks. Guess I wrote that pretty late!
The website should read http://www.coachketcham.com
Go Hillwood Middle!!! Miss you guys and glad you’ve had a blast!
Go Teddy! Go Nationals! (And yes, young fans from Texas: Go Redskins! ;-)) Glad your group had a great time in D.C.
What a cool thing for the kids! Glad you guys had fun. I also had fun looking at letteddywin.com Cool idea!
I’m jealous of my KIDS!
Stumbled on this site! Neat site and neat story with the kids being Teddy Fans. Hope everyone had a blast! Makes me want to go back to 8th grade!
What a awesome site and story. Cool kids!