"You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
--Joe DiMaggio, talking about Opening Day
Opening Day has arrived. All possibilities are real. (Unfortunately, even rain is a possibility, but I'll still go with my forecast two nights ago.)
"Baseball began in a bright green field with an ancient name when this country was new and raw and without shape, and it has shaped America by linking every summer from 1846 to this one, through wars and depressions and seasons of rain."
--Bart Giamatti, in "Men of Baseball, Lend an Ear"
No baseball fan is ever a pessimist on Opening Day.
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The Malibu Sharks host the Vasquez Mustangs in the first game of the Daily News-Victory Invitational today at 3:00 p.m. Be there!
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