Herbert Hoover once said baseball was the greatest of all team sports.
Now Hoover, the nation's 31st president, will join the Washington Nationals as the newest of the "racing presidents" at Nats home games.
The team and the White House Historical Association made the announcement Sunday morning on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hoover will join the other racing presidents -- George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft -- and is expected to race Sunday during the Nats' game against the Miami Marlins.
Fans got suspicious when Calvin Coolidge, who was introduced in July 2015, did not race at last week's home opener.