Thomas Boswell's great book on baseball offers his understandings of Why Time Begins on Opening Day, suggesting that for the baseball fan life and the world really are a little different thanks to their appreciation of the game and some of its unique features. The lack of a clock, the length of a season, the reality that the best hitters who ever lived miss more times than they hit...all of these have a special resonance for the game's fans.
But time never stands still, either, and today's Opening Day games, featuring all 30 Major League Baseball teams, have not a single player who was active in the majors during the 20th century. Adrian Beltre and Bartolo Colon were the last from that time. Ichiro Suzuki's 20th century time was spent playing in Japan's major leagues.
Anyway, "Play ball!"
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