Baseball’s Opening Day
The first official game for the 2010 MLB season was played last night between the Yankees and Red Sox. 26 other teams begin play today in what is known as Opening Day. The Orioles and Rays are put on hold until tomorrow for no particular reason.
Tradition is a big part of the sport known as America’s Pastime, but lately tradition has been thrown out the window for money and other reasons which indirectly involve… money. The younger generation is used to Sunday night openers or the season starting with a couple games in Japan (2000. 2004, 2008). It wasn’t always that way.
What Reds baseball looked like over 100 years ago...
Recite this bit of trivia to the younger ones in your group as you talk about the upcoming MLB season today: for decades, the Cincinnati Reds were given the honor of starting the first game of the season before anyone else. The Reds were considered to be the first officially recognized franchise, so the Opening Day tradition was fitting until money and ratings put an end to it in 1990. The Reds are still granted with a home game to start the year almost every season, but a parade and the first pitch of the year thrown in Cincinnati is a thing of the past. Play Ball!
Read on:
Baseball-almanac.com – Opening Day
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