Opening Day is the day on which professional baseball leagues begin their regular season. For Major League Baseball and most of the American minor leagues, this day typically falls during the first we
2009 Opening Day at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles
The Findlay Market Parade at Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati in 2015. The parade has been held annually since 1920 to celebrate Opening Day in Cincinnati.
Opening Day introductions at Minute Maid Park on April 2, 2007
President Woodrow Wilson throws out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day in 1916
Spring training, also called spring camp, is the preseason of the Summer Professional Baseball Leagues, such as Major League Baseball, and it is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding th
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…Boswell once penned a book titled Why Time Begins on Opening Day. Pre-season exhibition games are usually played in the month before Opening Day, during spring training. A home opener is a team's first game of the season on their home field. Equivalents to Opening Day occur throughout the sport, including minor leagues…
A 1994 Grapefruit League game at the LA Dodgers' former camp of Holman Stadium in Vero Beach, Florida
Boston Red Sox players (from L-R) Olaf Henriksen, Larry Gardner, Buck O'Brien, Heinie Wagner, Steve Yerkes, and Hugh Bradley in Hot Springs, Arkansas for spring training, 1912
1885 Chicago White Stockings (modern Chicago Cubs)
Babe Ruth hit a 573-foot (175 m) home run in spring training, 1918. He led the league with 11 home runs and had a 13–7 record as the Red Sox won the 1918 World Series.