1947 — Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Dodgers. He went 0-for-3, but scored the deciding run in a ...

1957 — President Eisenhower officially opened the 1956 season by tossing out the first ball at Griffith Stadium in Washington D.C. The ball was the 10 millionth Spalding baseball to be used in major ...

2004 — Bobby Abreu of the Philadelphia Phillies hits the first home run in the new Citizens Bank Park. 2009 — For the second ...

Wheeler, making his second straight Opening Day start, was second in voting last season for the award that goes to the ...

The MLB record for strikeouts on Opening Day is 15 by the Washington Senators' Camilio Pascual in 1960 at Griffith Stadium against Hall of Famer Ted Williams and the Red Sox. The 13 strikeouts are ...

A rotund William Howard Taft made presidential history by throwing out the first pitch for the Washington Senators Opening Day at Griffith Stadium in 1910, and the tradition has morphed into an ...

Kansas City and many other municipalities desperately wanted to join this exclusive club, and 70 years ago the doors swung ...

Sarah Griffith’s time with Chicago Stars FC appears ... scored a sensational match-winner in the 89th minute against the Washington Spirit to secure Chicago’s only win in the summer tournament.