In the days leading up to the Presidential Inauguration, the Baseball Continuum will be posting pictures celebrating the relation between the presidency and baseball. These are not meant to be an endorsement of either side of the political aisle nor the policies of any of the men featured within, merely a celebration of the close connection between America’s leader and America’s game.

You’ve seen the picture before, but it remains a powerful image: An aged Babe Ruth donating a copy of his manuscript to Yale University, with them being received by the captain of Yale’s baseball team: George Herbert Walker Bush.

From the U.S. National Archives flickr account, no known copyright.