[spoiler="Скрытый текст"] 1969 At Washington's RFK Stadium, Ted Williams makes his managerial debut in front of President Nixon and a crowd of 45,113, a city record for an opener. The Commander-in-Chief throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to the Yankees' 8-4 defeat of the 'Splendid Splinter's' Senators.
1970 After eight consecutive Opening Day defeats, the Mets finally win the first game of the season by beating the Pirates at Forbes Field in 11 innings, 5-3. New York becomes the first team to have won a World Series (1969) before prevailing in a season debut.
1977 Frank Sinatra keeps his promise to Tommy Lasorda by singing the Star-Spangled Banner on Opening Day at Dodger Stadium. 'Old Blue Eyes' had told the team's new skipper he would perform the National Anthem if his friend ever became the L.A. manager.
1984 On NBC's nationally televised Game of the Week, Detroit right-hander Jack Morris throws a no-hitter, blanking the White Sox at Comiskey Park, 4-0. The 29 year-old becomes the first Tiger hurler to accomplish the feat since Jim Bunning held Boston hitless at Fenway Park in 1958.
1986 Extending his major league record, White Sox (2) hurler Tom Seaver makes his 16th Opening Day start. The 41 year-old future Hall of Fame right-hander has also pitched the first game of the season for the Mets (11) and Reds (3).
2009 Ninety-seven years after his grandfather, Boston mayor John 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald, threw out the first pitch at the first major league game played at Fenway Park, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy also tosses the ceremonial first pitch for the Red Sox at a season opener. The sell-out crowd enthusiastically cheers the 77 year-old long-time Massachusetts law maker, who was diagnosed last spring with a malignant brain tumor, when he tosses the ball from in front of the mound to a nearby Jim Rice, a newly elected member of the Hall of Fame.
2010 According to its annual report, Forbes Magazine estimates the value of the Yankees to be worth approximately $1.6 billion, nearly twice as much as any other major league franchise. The World Champs, who moved into a new ballpark last season, made $441 million in net revenue after adjustments were made for its payment to baseball’s revenue sharing program and the costs of financing its new stadium. [/spoiler]
[spoiler="Скрытый текст"][spoiler="Скрытый текст"] 1934 At Shibe Park, 15,000 fans witness the first legal baseball game between major league teams played on a Sunday in the city of Philadelphia. In a hometown exhibition game, the Phillies beat the A's, 8-1.
1953 Bernice Lombardi finds her husband Ernie lying on the bed, after the former major league catcher had slit his throat from ear to ear with a razor that he found in a relative's bathroom. The former Reds' backstop, battling a similar bout of depression that caused his teammate Willard Hershberger to commit suicide in 1940, is given little hope to live, at the time, but he will manage to survive his horrific self-inflicted wound.
1963 In his first major league plate appearance, Pete Rose works out a walk off Earl Francis in the Reds' 5-2 victory over Pittsburgh at Crosley Field. The eventual all-time hit leader will be held hitless in during the game, going 0-for-3, but does score his first major league run when Frank Robinson homers in the bottom of the first inning.
1969 On Opening Day, Red Sox outfielder Tony Conigliaro, playing his first game since being severely injured by a pitch thrown by Jack Hamilton on August 18, 1967, makes a dramatic comeback when he connects for a two-run homer in the top of the tenth inning and then scores the eventual winning run in the top of the 12th frame to give Boston a 5-4 victory at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium. The 24 year-old Revere, Massachusetts native will experience moderate success during the next two seasons, but will never fully recover from the damage sustained in his left retina.
1974 Braves outfielder Henry Aaron passes Babe Ruth as the all-time home run leader with his 715th, going deep in the fourth inning off Dodger hurler Al Downing in Atlanta's home opener. 'Hammerin' Hank' equaled the Bambino's mark on Opening Day in Cincinnati.
2003 As a backlash of Canadians' reaction in Montreal last month at the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner due to their opposition of the U.S. war in Iraq, some of the 29,138 patrons at the Cub opener boo as the Canadian national anthem, O' Canada, is performed prior to the Expo game at Wrigley Field.
2014 Yankee third baseman Yangervis Solarte becomes the first player in major league history to double six times in the first seven games of his career when he collects a pair of two-baggers in the team’s 14-5 loss to Baltimore in the Bronx. The 26 year-old rookie, who will be traded to the Padres in July, along with minor leaguer Rafael De Paula, for Chase Headley and cash, ends the day with a .429 batting average, going 12-for-28 since the start of the season. [/spoiler][/spoiler]
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[spoiler="Скрытый текст"] 1913 In a game which features President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the first pitch, Washington's Walter Johnson gives up an unearned run in the first inning of the home opener, but the 'Big Train' will not yield another tally for 56 innings. The Senators beat the team now known as the Yankees, 2-1, switching from the Highlanders, the nickname the team used since the franchise moved from Baltimore to New York for the 1903 season.
1947 During the sixth inning of an exhibition game against their minor league team at Ebbets Field, the Montreal Royals, Dodgers' president Branch Rickey issues a two sentence statement to the press which will forever change the game. It reads "The Brooklyn Dodgers today purchased the contract of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson from the Montreal Royals. He will report immediately."
1961 In the last opener ever to be played at Griffith Stadium, rookie president JFK throws out the longest and hardest thrown ceremonial first pitch in history as the ball sails over the heads of the players lined up in front of the presidential box. The newly elected Commander in Chief, an avid Red Sox fan, stays for the entire game and sees the 'new' Washington Senators, the former team having moved to Minnesota, play their first game, losing to the White Sox, 4-3.
1969 Tommy Agee hits a monster shot into the top tier of seats in left field, making the blast the longest home run to reach the seats in Shea Stadium history. A disc commemorating the Mets center fielder's historic homer is placed in the upper deck at the Flushing ballpark.
2012 Vin Scully misses the Dodgers' home opener for the first time in 35 years when doctors order the 84 year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster to rest as he recovers from a bad cold. The last time the team's play-by-play announcer was absent from the season's first home game he was calling the first round of the Masters in 1977. [/spoiler]