On a muggy “Weather Day” afternoon at Nationals Park, the Nats’ racing presidents cooled off in their colorful Hawaiian shirts for the first time this season Tuesday, then mixed things up further by moving the finish line to foul territory along the third base side of the park and racing along the left field warning … Continue reading Racing presidents trot out Hawaiian shirts for Weather Day
It was a beautiful day to play hooky from work, and Teddy Roosevelt took advantage. For Thursday’s afternoon game at Nationals Park, The Rough Rider parked himself in a Hawaiian shirt in a lawn chair, sunning himself along the first base line. As his fellow presidents were forced through an obstacle course of palm trees … Continue reading Teddy sets palm tree and pineapple obstacle course for the racing presidents
The Nats racing presidents chased the rain away Friday night by trotting out their Hawaiian Shirts, and decided to keep it away Saturday afternoon by wearing them again. With Lavar Arrington nowhere to be seen, Abe Lincoln jumped out of the starting gate in the fourth inning and led the presidents race wire to wire. … Continue reading Video: In tropical attire, Lincoln leads wire to wire
William Howard Taft got some unlikely assistance as the Nationals racing presidents kicked off the first day of summer in style Friday night at Nationals Park. With Stephen Strasburg mowing down the Colorado Rockies to lead the team to its third straight victory, the nearly 35,000 fans in attendance were able to celebrate the change … Continue reading Video: Presidents welcome summer as Taft enlists Kool-Aid Man to take out competition
The Washington Nationals hosted the first playoff game in the team’s short history Wednesday, and area fans showed up in droves, crushing previous attendance records to pack the house with a record standing room only crowd of 45,027. Many of the usual stadium promotion breaks featuring in-game host Clint Khoury were usurped by Major League … Continue reading Video: Presidents race Gangnam Style 강남스타일 again as Teddy steals Nationals’ first postseason race
When Saturday’s game between the Nationals and the St. Louis Cardinals was picked up by FOX Sports as the game of the week, the Nats’ mascot team was faced with a golden opportunity: an entire extra minute of commercial time to fill during the middle of the 4th inning. The result? Presidents race bonus time, … Continue reading Video: Racing presidents dance “Gangnam Style”
Perhaps it’s the uniform. A crowd of 30,114 came to Nationals Park Friday night to see Chien Ming Wang battle both the sweltering heat and the New York Mets in his first major league start in over two years. As Wang struggled in the in 103° game-time temperatures, the Nationals’ racing presidents chose to to … Continue reading In 103° heat, Teddy Roosevelt stops to do the hula
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