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  1. To start the 1910 season, Walter John-
  2. son had earned the honor of pitching on
  3. opening day. President William Howard
  4. Taft threw out the first ball. The cere-
  5. mony marks the first time a president
  6. had ever made the toss. 
  7.  
  8. Walter became the Washington
  9. Senators' opening-day pitcher 14 times.
  10. He collected the autographed "first"
  11. baseballs of Presidents Taft, Woodrow
  12. Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin
  13. Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. After
  14. Walter died, the entire collection was
  15. presented to the National Baseball Hall
  16. of Fame and Museum by his son.