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A fascinating link exists between the World Series, Baseball, and President Ronald Reagan which is not throwing out the first ball but early radio recreation of the plays!
The Reagan Library Foundation has numerous interviews, audios, and guest speakers surrounding the topic of baseball. One of the most interesting is told by an online blogger. There are elements of President Reagans time as a radio broadcaster detailed in exhibits at the museum.
But the story online includes clips of him detailing an experience with he was "recreating" the plays of a game, when the local team was on the road or no local broadcast was available. "Recreators used props. They piped in sounds. And because their information was limited they had to imagine some parts of the game. This was the job of a future actor and President, Ronald Reagan. He broadcast for WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa in the 1930's......" Midnight Library of Baseball 10/25/25 on Instagram from Episode 4 of Season 4 of the Midnight Library of Baseball.
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"Season 4, Episode 4: The Recreators"
Step into the forgotten world of baseball recreation, a unique phenomenon created to fill an enormous void in baseball coverage during the 1920s to the 1950s, a strange blending of truth and fiction that connected millions to the game and their heroes, and introduced millions to a young recreator named Ronald Reagan, who cited baseball recreation as a valuable tool in his journey through American politics.
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