--- title: Barack Obama Visits Little League Baseball Game in Washington DC description: The commander-in-chief dropped by a game at DC's Friendship Park, and the players were not impressed canonical: https://time.com/107504/barack-obama-little-league-game/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-21T15:55:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:39.720Z og:title: These Little Leaguers Don't Know Who Barack Obama Is og:description: The commander-in-chief dropped by a game at DC's Friendship Park Monday og:url: https://time.com/107504/barack-obama-little-league-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf591ae7197f318d3/69869059e53aba5e224d2ac9/492341843-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: President Barack Obama Visits a Little Leage Baseball Game in Washington, D.C. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Little Leaguers Don't Know Who Barack Obama Is twitter:description: The commander-in-chief dropped by a game at DC's Friendship Park Monday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf591ae7197f318d3/69869059e53aba5e224d2ac9/492341843-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Little Leaguers Don't Know Who Barack Obama Is > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 21, 2014 3:55 PM UTC  U.S. President Barack Obama throws out the first pitch at a little league baseball game at Friendship Park May 19, 2014 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Barack Obama throws out the first pitch at a little league baseball game at Friendship Park May 19, 2014 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch-Pool / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 21, 2014 3:55 PM UTC On Monday evening, President Obama decided to stop by D.C.’s Friendship Park to surprise some Little Leaguers who were warming up for their game. Many of the young ball players weren’t exactly impressed, though, mostly because they apparently didn’t know who he was. Allow us to repeat that: the President of the United States of America just [dropped by](http://time.com/107710/that-time-obama-showed-up-at-my-little-league-game/) to say hey, and they didn’t know who he was. While parents reached for their phones to snap pictures, many of the children held back, skeptical about this strange man who they apparently had never seen before, the Associated Press [reports](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/batter-obama-pops-little-league-game). “Daddy, let’s just play,” one boy said to his father, apparently annoyed by all the fuss. One valiant young player eventually agreed to high-five this strange mystery man:  President Barack Obama greets players as he visits a little league game at the Friendship Park in Washington, D.C. on May 19, 2014\. UPI/Kevin Dietsch Kevin Dietsch-Pool / Getty Images In 60 years, these kids will tell their grandchildren about this day and they’ll _totally_ pretend they knew exactly who this man was. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/107504/barack-obama-little-league-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/107504/barack-obama-little-league-game/"},"headline":"These Little Leaguers Don't Know Who Barack Obama Is","datePublished":"2014-05-21T15:55:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:39.720Z","description":"The commander-in-chief dropped by a game at DC's Friendship Park, and the players were not impressed","url":"https://time.com/107504/barack-obama-little-league-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","politics","Baseball","Obama","washington DC"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf591ae7197f318d3/69869059e53aba5e224d2ac9/492341843-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf591ae7197f318d3/69869059e53aba5e224d2ac9/492341843-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Barack Obama Visits a Little Leage Baseball Game in Washington, D.C.","caption":"President Barack Obama Visits a Little Leage Baseball Game in Washington, D.C.","creditText":"Kevin Dietsch-Pool / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/107504/barack-obama-little-league-game/","name":"These Little Leaguers Don't Know Who Barack Obama Is"}}]}] ```