First Pitches

Listen. If Bill Walton is calling a given day “the greatest day of my life,” that’s a real day! The man has been…

It’s generally lame when non-baseball athletes use non-baseballs to complete ceremonial first pitches. You see this…

Chance the Snapper—a Chicago alligator who gained fame last week when he was first noticed living in the Humboldt…

Just a couple of weeks ago, Chicago photographer Darren Georgia narrowly avoided a serious bump on his face during a…

The look on the face White Sox pitcher Evan Marshall, doing the catching for the ceremonial first pitch ahead of…

The Chicago White Sox invited Sister Mary Jo Sobieck of Marian Catholic High School to throw out the ceremonial…

An unfortunate fellow was bonked in the head by an errant first pitch before Sunday’s Braves-Cardinals game. This is…

The gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic men’s curling team stopped by Thursday’s Minnesota Twins game to throw out the…

The Yankees today invited four members of the 2007 Super Bowl-winning New York Giants—David Tyree, Shaun O’Hara,…

Maybe this dude shouldn’t have been urged to “fire it in there,” because boy did he ever fire it (the baseball) in…

Strong-as-hell swimming champion Katie Ledecky is from Washington D.C., and the Nationals invited her to come throw…

The best first pitch of 2016 does not belong to a 92-year-old World War II veteran, Snoop Dogg, or, uh, whoever…

Snoop Dogg was at a Padres game for some reason this afternoon, and he threw out the first pitch, laying down the…

All sorts of people throw out first pitches before baseball games. Old guys, dinosaurs, washed rappers—you name it,…

World War II veteran Burke Waldron tossed the first pitch for the Seattle Mariners for Monday’s Memorial Day game.…

Better than 50 Cent!

Bucks point guard Michael Carter-Williams threw out the first pitch at Thursday’s Brewers game, and it was accurate,…

So, here's the question: how much worse can these first pitches get? At some point someone is going to do…