If you're watching Season 3, Episode 7 of Netflix's show "Big Mouth," then you're probably wondering if that story about Teddy Roosevelt and Duke Ellington is true. If you're not watching that Ian Happ Jersey show and somehow endup on this article, then we'll offer a brief summary of the show for you.

In the show, the ghost of Duke Ellington is a recurring character from Season 1. In Season 3, Ellington gets his own episode dedicated to his life. Early on in the episode, Ellington talks about how his early pa sion was playing baseball and he mentions former president Teddy Roosevelt used to watch him play.

Immediately after sharing this news, Ellington broke the fourth wall and told the audience to Google it. So here you are, probably.

And it turns out, this is actually true.

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In his memoir, , Ellington recalled a moment from childhood:

"There were many open lots around Washington then, and we used to play baseball at an old tennis court on Sixteenth Street. President Roosevelt would come by on his horse sometimes, and stop Cole Hamels Jersey and watch us play. When he got ready to go, he would wave and we would wave at him. That was Teddy Roosevelt just him and his horse, nobody guarding him."

In that same book, he discu sed his pa sion for the sport: Fergie Jenkins Jersey

"At this point, piano was not my recognized talent. Why, I thought, take it so seriously? After all, baseball, football, track, and athletics were what the real he-men were identified with, and so they were naturally the most important to me. Washington was in the American League and every day I had to see the game. The only way for me to do that was to get a job at the baseball park Griffith Stadium . I succeeded in getting one and had my first eperience of stage fright. I had to walk around, in and Yu Darvish Jersey out and in front of all those people, yelling, 'Peanuts, popcorn, chewing gum, candy, cigas, cigarettes, and score cards!' I soon got over my nervousne s, although the first day I mi sed a lot of the game hiding behind the stands. By the end of the season, I had been promoted to yelling, 'Cold drinks, gents! Get 'em ice cold!' I was so crazy about baseball, it's a wonder I ever sold anything. The opportunity to walk around there, looking at all those baseball heroes, whose pictures were a premium in the cigarette packages, meant a lot to me."

As for why he Craig Kimbrel Jersey mostly quit his early pa sion? His mom was concerned about him playing the sport. And an incident on the field led to Ellington not playing baseball as a child.

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Her anxieties about him were further exacerbated the following year when Ellington was hit on the head with a baseball bat during a game. She rushed out in the street and took him to Dr. Cuthbert, who closed the wound with stitches. Ellington said, "The mark is still there, but I soon got over it. With that, however, my mother decided I should take Steve Cishek Jersey piano le sons."

But Ellington wouldn't stay away from baseball forever. As, Ellington and other jazz musicians would often gather and play some games with each other. The Ellington's band "fielded a competitive baseball team, which played against teams from other orchestras."

Duke Ellington couldnt hit or throw, but he loved the game, said jazz historian Phil Schaap to the Times.