The First Pitch: Race, Redemption, and American Legion Baseball
- Jun 21, 2015
- 1 min read
From Vice
Tony King, will not be wrestling with philosophical questions when he walks out to the mound around noon on Sunday. All week he has been brushing aside the idea that this ceremonial first pitch was significant.
“It doesn’t make any difference,” he insists. “It’s just the idea of it, anyway. You let the ball go, and you go down. It’s just something to get the game started.”
For weeks, he has been tossing a baseball into his pillows in his half of Room 256 of the Soldier’s Home in Holyoke, Mass. And really, he has been getting ready in the bullpen since 1934.
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