Five days after Appomattox, a relieved nation’s most essential leader went to enjoy a play — and a single shot changed the course of American history forever.A president stood up, wound up, and tossed a baseball — and more than a century of American presidents have been doing it ever since.It came from the northwest, it turned afternoon into midnight, and it told a generation of farmers that the land they had broken was ready to break them back.

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