Opening Day

  • Opening Day: Cleveland, the Indians, and a New Beginning
    By Jonathan Knight

    Lefebvre left Seattle to take over the Cubs ' managerial spot after the 1990 season , and Bill Plummer , once Johnny Bench's backup with the Reds , stepped in . The Mariners finally vaulted over the .500 mark in 1991 with an 83-79 ...

  • Opening Day
    By William Corbett

    Poetry. William Corbett is a poet who lives in Boston's South End and is Director of Student Writing Activities in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies.

  • Opening Day: Or, the Return of Satchel Paige
    By Les Standiford

    You see , ” Buck Owens has said , “ Satchel did to black baseball just what Ruth did to white baseball .... Ruth kept the franchises going . Just like Ruth after the Black Sox scandal , here comes Ruth and he brings it back .

  • Opening Day
    By Ric Davies

    Back goes Meyers...back to the warning track to the wall...he heaps up and this ball is gone!!! A three-run home run for Henderson and we have a tie ball game!” Normally, people in the Inland Empire started to leave after the seventh ...

  • Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
    By Jonathan Eig

    With two homers from Bobby Thomson, one from Johnny Mize, one from Bill Rigney, and another from Willard Marshall, the Giants went back on top, 6–2. But Robinson wasn't finished giving thrills. Leading off the eighth, he fell behind in ...

  • Opening Day
    By Susan Bartlett, Susan Bartlett Weber

    Having taken a hunter education course and gotten a license, Sam feels ready for his first hunting trip with his best friend Eric and Eric's father, but once he gets close to a deer he is not certain he wants to shoot one.

  • Opening Day: A Short Story
    By Daniel Arthur Smith, Limited, Holt Smith

    A coming of age story. There are stories of the hunt that contain gore, the thrill of the chase, adrenalin of the kill, and the butchering of large game. Despite the setting, this is not one of those 'hunt' stories. * * * * *

  • Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
    By Jonathan Eig

    Opening Day is also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant.

  • Opening Day: A Matt Davis Mystery
    By Joe Perrone

    This morning marks the beginning of a special day for me. It just so happens that it's a Saturday, and my one weekend day off. It's also April 1, and the opening of trout season. That fact alone does not distinguish the 5 Opening Day.

  • Opening Day
    By Ric Davies

    As Wendy sat at her desk after lunch on the following day, Harris, the guard, approached with a bouquet of roses in a crystal vase. ... she answered as she quickly opened the card to find out who her admirer was. As she read the card, ...

  • Opening Day
    By Rusty Trimble

    “Ok” Ted opened. “I will make an announcement, but I ask that there are no questions afterwards as I really won‟t have any additional answers for another couple of days possibly and will respond with „no comment‟ afterwards.

  • Opening Day
    By Dan Bertalan

    Opening Day

  • Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
    By Jonathan Eig

    This book chronicles the day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and played first base for the Dodgers.

  • Opening Day
    By Ernie Koepf

    Over the years it's changed, but the sea is still the place he goes for solace, affirmation, and a living. This novel captures the flavor of the fishing life and the deep changes in the values of the industry.