When did championship teams start visiting the White House?

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When did championship-winning teams begin visiting the White House?

Like literally every other interaction in the Donald Trump presidency, a championship team’s visit to the White House invariably becomes a Political Event, whether because of who’s invited, who’s disinvited, who makes a statement, or what’s on the menu. And like literally every other interaction in the Trump presidency, it wasn’t always like this.

Winning teams have visited the White House for at least 150 years, per ESPN, dating back to when President Andrew Johnson feted two amateur baseball clubs, the Brooklyn Atlantics and the familiar-named Washington Nationals. The first pro baseball team to visit the White House? The Cincinnati Red Stockings, who met with President Ulysses S. Grant four years later.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were the first Super Bowl champions to visit, sharing a bill with the Pittsburgh Pirates to meet President Carter in 1980. The Pittsburgh Penguins were the first Stanley Cup team, visiting the first President Bush in 1991. Earlier, Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan had opened the White House doors wide to a range of championship teams, making them an annual and expected occurrence.

 

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Good for them! Baseball has a lot more LEGAL immigrants than other sports that know how great America really is. Not hypocrites like KingJames that would sooner visit Xi Jinping than Trump

Yahoo must hate seeing our unique President enjoying his invites to achievers. He is a man, that as Kipling once said, 'If you can walk with Kings and keep the common touch, you will be a man my son' (or words to that effect). He is just that, he is one of our great 'unsnobs' GBH

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