Baseball returns to the US capital tonight as the Washington Nationals play their first home game.

The Washington Times has an interesting article about the baseball that will be used for the cerimonial first pitch.

President Bush will use the same ball that was used for last pitch of the final game of the 1971 Washington Senators before they moved to Texas and became the Rangers. For all thirty-three plus years, Joe Grzenda, the pitcher on the mound when the game was called as the fans stormed the field with two outs in the top of the ninth, kept the ball he was using. Now he will present the ball to President Bush for the inagural pitch of the new Washington DC team.