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- Opening Day is warmly regarded in North American tradition as the beginning of a new Major League Baseball season. It falls annually around the beginning of April, signaling such a generational feeling of rebirth for some that the writer Thomas Boswell once penned a book titled, Why Time Begins On Opening Day. Many feel that the occasion represents a newness or a chance to forget last season, in that the 30 major league clubs and their millions of fans begin with 0-0 records. For generations, Opening Day has arrived amid pageantry. In Cincinnati, Ohio, home of the sport's first professional team, an annual parade marks an unofficial "city holiday" with young and old alike taking the day off to cheer on the Reds. For decades, the first pitch of every major league season officially took place in Cincinnati. The past decade has brought the introduction of a Sunday night opening game televised by ESPN, as well as the staging of season-opening series in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Japan (with the current World Series champion as the "home" team against an opponent in the same league). The ensuing Monday brings Opening Day to numerous major league ballparks and the game that day in Cincinnati (the only team that always opens the season at home) is still observed throughout baseball as the "traditional opener. " Opening Day is a state of mind as well, with countless baseball fans known to recognize this unofficial holiday as a good reason to call in sick at work or "play hooky" from school and go out to the ballpark for the first of 162 regular season games. Each team's home opener serve as the only regular season games during the year in which the entire rosters of both teams as well as coaches and clubhouse staff are introduced to the crowd (for the rest of the year, ballparks only introduce the starting lineups). Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, once said: "An opener is not like any other game. There's that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart. You have that anxiety to get off to a good start, for yourself and for the team. You know that when you win the first one, you can't lose 'em all. " Opening Day extends throughout the sport of baseball, to hundreds of minor league baseball franchises as well as to college, high school, youth league fields and in areas far beyond North America. Similarly, there are opening-night performances for new Broadway plays. Prior to Opening Day, the teams' managers have to decide the starting pitchers for the Opening Day game. This spot is usually given to the teams' ace pitchers, and is usually considered an honor for a pitcher to start on Opening Day. In turn, the pitchers who start on Opening Day are usually recognized throughout the baseball world as their teams' best starting pitchers. Opening Day for 2009 was April 6th.
- O Dia de Abertura (Opening Day) é bastante estimado na tradição norte-americana como o início de uma nova temporada da Major League Baseball. Ele acontece anualmente por volta do começo de abril, indicando tal sentimento de renascimento para alguns que o escritor Thomas Boswell escreveu um livro, intitulado Why Time Begins On Opening Day. Muitos sentem que a ocasião representa uma renovação ou uma oportunidade de esquecer a temporada passada, já que os 30 clubes e seus milhões de torcedores começam do zero. Por gerações, o Dia de Abertura chega em meio a cerimônias. Em Cincinnati, Ohio, lar da primeira equipe profissional do esporte, uma parada anual marca um "feriado" não-oficial, com jovens e velhos tirando o dia para torcer pelos Reds. Ainda que a década passada tenha trazido a introdução de um jogo de abertura no domingo à noite na ESPN, a segunda-feira posterior traz o Dia de Abertura a maioria dos estádios, e o jogo naquele dia em Cincinnati ainda é observado por todo o beisebol como a "abertura tradicional". O Dia de Abertura também é um estado de espírito, com incontáveis fãs de beisebol conhecidos por reconhecer este feriado não-oficial como uma boa razão para ligar ao trabalho falando que está doente ou cabular aula e ir ao estádio para o primeiro de 162 jogos da temporada regular. O arremessador e membro do Salão da Fama Early Winn, que jogou pelo Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians e Chicago White Sox, uma vez disse: "Uma abertura não se parece com nenhum outro jogo. Há um pouco de excitação extra, uma batida mais rápida do coração. Você tem aquela ansiedade de sair para um bom começo, para você mesmo e para o time. Você sabe que quando você ganha a primeira, não pode perder todas. " Antes do Dia de Abertura, os treinadores das equipes têm de decidir os arremessadores titulares para o jogo. Este lugar é normalmente dado ao ás do time, e é considerada uma honra para ele iniciar no Dia de Abertura.
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