Card Number: TTC-CH (Trading Card Database)
Team: Washington Nationals
Division: National League East
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: The presidents race during the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 25, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
Photo Date: July 25, 2013
Photographer: G Fiume (More Getty Images)
The Nats are my local team and I remember there was a big campaign for the Teddy character to finally win a race. He lost his first 525 races before winning on the last day of the 2012 season, the first time the Nationals had made the playoffs since moving from Montreal. The Wiki page I linked above is a good read on this race. Apparently a lot of thought goes into these races that many see as just a fun diversion between innings.
The back of the card makes reference to seven presidents thought George Washington, Abraham Lnocln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are the core four and have been around since the beginning. William Taft was around from 2013-2016, Calvin Coolidge just 2015, and Herbert Hoover just 2016.
Something weird I noticed is that this card is "numbered" as TTC-PR, as in Presidents Racing, but the card is actually titled Racing Presidents. Shouldn't it be TTC-RC? There was one other "R" card but it uses TTC-RM.
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