William Howard Taft by Michael Ceraolo

William Howard Taft

Like everybody back then I played ball in my youth

And you probably know I was the first President

to throw out a ceremonial first pitch

I have a few other tangential connections

to baseball that you might not know about

I taught law to Miller Huggins,

telling him he could be a player or a pleader

but not both, at least not successfully,

and though he did pass the bar,

I think he made the right career choice

My half-brother Charles owned the Cubs for a time

And when baseball was considering changing its governing structure,

they approached me to be the single Commissioner

While being the chief judge of baseball would have been an honor,

my heart was set on being the Chief Judge of the country,

so I turned them down,

and I think I made the right choice for me