New York:
Britain's Prince Harry showed off a right royal arm Saturday, as he threw the ceremonial first pitch before the New York Mets played the Minnesota Twins in a Major League baseball game in New York.
Wearing a blue Mets cap Harry walked to the mound when the team ran onto the field before the first innings and received polite applause from the New York Citi Field crowd.
The 25-year-old Prince sheepishly waved to the crowd as he stood on the top of the pitcher's mound.
He then made a hard, accurate throw that was a little high, forcing catcher Rod Barajas to stand from his crouch to make the catch of the pitch that crossed the plate.
Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey had apparently given Harry some throwing advice about a half-hour before the game.
The prince, the third in line to the thrown, began his three-day visit to New York on Friday as he showed off his aim on the firing range at the US Military Academy at West Point, where he participated in training exercises with cadets.
Saturday's game coincided with celebrations in the United Kingdom of Armed Forces Day.
A lieutenant in the British Army, Harry spent several innings on Saturday in a luxury suite with Mets owner Fred Wilpon, the founder of Welcome Back Veterans, a charity which provides support and treatment for soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.
Earlier on Saturday, Harry toured a UNICEF operations centre.
On Sunday, Harry is scheduled to participate in a sporting event he is more familiar with: a polo match.
The third annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governors Island, in New York Harbour, will benefit American Friends of Sentebale, the US arm of the global charity co-founded by Harry.
Sentabale provides support to orphans and at risk children in Lesotho, an impoverished African nation whose inhabitants have one of the shortest average life expectancies in the world.
Harry was to promote his charity at a reception at a country club in Greenwich, Connecticut, later on Saturday.
He is also set to walk with wounded veterans participating in a road race through Central Park on Sunday.
Harry served in Afghanistan in 2008 as a battlefield air controller until a media leak cut his time short.
Wearing a blue Mets cap Harry walked to the mound when the team ran onto the field before the first innings and received polite applause from the New York Citi Field crowd.
The 25-year-old Prince sheepishly waved to the crowd as he stood on the top of the pitcher's mound.
He then made a hard, accurate throw that was a little high, forcing catcher Rod Barajas to stand from his crouch to make the catch of the pitch that crossed the plate.
Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey had apparently given Harry some throwing advice about a half-hour before the game.
The prince, the third in line to the thrown, began his three-day visit to New York on Friday as he showed off his aim on the firing range at the US Military Academy at West Point, where he participated in training exercises with cadets.
Saturday's game coincided with celebrations in the United Kingdom of Armed Forces Day.
A lieutenant in the British Army, Harry spent several innings on Saturday in a luxury suite with Mets owner Fred Wilpon, the founder of Welcome Back Veterans, a charity which provides support and treatment for soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.
Earlier on Saturday, Harry toured a UNICEF operations centre.
On Sunday, Harry is scheduled to participate in a sporting event he is more familiar with: a polo match.
The third annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governors Island, in New York Harbour, will benefit American Friends of Sentebale, the US arm of the global charity co-founded by Harry.
Sentabale provides support to orphans and at risk children in Lesotho, an impoverished African nation whose inhabitants have one of the shortest average life expectancies in the world.
Harry was to promote his charity at a reception at a country club in Greenwich, Connecticut, later on Saturday.
He is also set to walk with wounded veterans participating in a road race through Central Park on Sunday.
Harry served in Afghanistan in 2008 as a battlefield air controller until a media leak cut his time short.
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