Capitol Hill

This guide to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. follows an annual ritual that began in 1909, when Representative John Tener, a former major league pitcher, got members of Congress into uniforms for a Democrats-versus-Republicans baseball game. You'll hear how the tradition grew rowdier through the 1910s, and what Speaker Sam Rayburn decided to do about it in 1958. It ends on how a Capitol Hill newspaper talked a later Speaker into bringing the game back.