Richard Johnson

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Clintons blow off charity softball game for book signing

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Bill and Hillary Clinton were no-shows at the Artists & Writers softball game in East Hampton on Saturday.

Bill participated as the umpire in 1988, before he became president, and came last year as a spectator.

One disappointed fan said he was told by several organizers, “He’ll be here any minute.” A group of people waited out by the entrance, some wearing Bill Clinton T-shirts, but he never showed.

At the table where the baseball jerseys with the players’ names were handed out, two “Clinton” jerseys sat unclaimed throughout the game.

“No celebs at all. No Alec Baldwin. No Bob Balaban,” my source complained. “Lori Singer turned a few heads in the on-deck circle in Nemo-orange gym shorts, but that was it.”

The real action was a block away on Main Street, where, by the seventh inning stretch, there were at least 300 people lined up for Hillary’s book signing of “Hard Choices.”