The Artists, The Writers, And The President

How did Bill Clinton get to be the best-known regular at a 75-year-old softball game for creative luminaries?

The Artists & Writers softball game turns 75 this year, and though its 94-year-old chairman Leif Hope hasn’t been on the field for every contest, he can recall details of each summer’s tilt as well as anyone. Except, perhaps, for a certain former U.S. President: Bill Clinton.

“I saw him three or four years ago when he came out for the game,” says Hope. “…