U.S. Presidents at Play

Barack Obama, a self-confessed sports nut, threw out the first pitch at the 2009 All-Star Game. But he is hardly the first president with a love of sports. Here is a look back at some of the nation's leaders taking a break from the Oval Office.

Franklin D. Roosevelt prepares to throw the first ball of the 1941 baseball season while gripping the arm of his Presidential Secretary, General Edwin M. Watson, for support in the stands of Griffin Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla.