Exhibit Shows Presidents Got Game
Submitted on March 31, 2000 - 1:00am.
Charmaine Smith - Spring 2001
WASHINGTON _ Teddy Roosevelt's baseball bat. Calvin Coolidge's basketball. Gerald Ford's football jersey.
Those are an eclectic collection of presidential sports memorabilia proving that, as its creator says, presidents played sports as well as politics.
"In our culture, we have come to a point where sports and politics have mixed," says Frank Ceresi, executive director of collections and curator for the MCI National Sports Gallery.
That's why Ceresi decided to put together the Presidents and Sports exhibit at the MCI National Sports Gallery in Washington. The exhibit's focus, he says, is the sports that presidents played—from their childhood to their days in the White House. The exhibit runs until May 2001.
Those are an eclectic collection of presidential sports memorabilia proving that, as its creator says, presidents played sports as well as politics.
"In our culture, we have come to a point where sports and politics have mixed," says Frank Ceresi, executive director of collections and curator for the MCI National Sports Gallery.
That's why Ceresi decided to put together the Presidents and Sports exhibit at the MCI National Sports Gallery in Washington. The exhibit's focus, he says, is the sports that presidents played—from their childhood to their days in the White House. The exhibit runs until May 2001.
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