Right over the plate, too!
William H. Taft is the catcher as he catches a ball “from T.R.” William Jennings Bryan swings and misses the pitched ball at the plate. The crowd has various responses: “Oh! Rotten,” “Whoof!!!” “Did Haskell touch 2nd,” “Aw go back t’ the bush league,” and “Who d’ye think y’are? Mike Donlin?”
Comments and Context
The baseball setting in this cartoon by Floyd W. Triggs during the 1908 campaign features a memorable caricature of Democratic candidate Bryan missing the ball presumably pitched by President Roosevelt; at least the dark ball in the mitt of catcher William H. Taft, the Republican candidate, is labelled “from T.R.”