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Obama to meet baseball champs next week

Next Tuesday, President Obama gets to take part in one of the nicer perks that comes with the job: a meet-and-greet with the World Series champions.

The Philadelphia Phillies, in town next week to help the hometown Nationals kick off their season, will make a visit to the White House for the traditional handshake-and-photo-op between the president and the team that won the previous year’s World Series, the

(Utley, by the way, got a huge compliment last year from noted baseball expert/president of the United States, George W. Bush.