Four days before he leaves office, President Obama hosted the Chicago Cubs at the White House on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But as Cubs president Theo Epstein pointed out, it wasn’t the first time the team has visited.
“It was 1888 and we were known as the Chicago White Stockings,” he said. “And we stopped in here to visit President Grover Cleveland, and apparently the team demanded for a proclamation to be named the best baseball team in the country. The president refused, and the team went on their way.
“We going to make no such demands today.