In Washington, D.C., home to The President Woodrow Wilson House, baseball fever has swept the city. The local team, the Washington Nationals, are advancing to the World Series for the first time in modern franchise history, and it’s the first World Series involving a Washington team since 1933.

Wilson House Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher, herself a Nationals fan, reached out to let us know of President Wilson’s surprising connections to baseball (he even nicknamed a room in his house “The Dugout”), and to talk about a one-of-a-kind item in the Wilson House collection. Read More...