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unusual facts about Opening Day



Don Rudolph

Rudolph was the Opening Day pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1963 in a 3–1 defeat by the Baltimore Orioles in a game played at District of Columbia Stadium.


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1843 in Denmark

August 15 – Georg Carstensen Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen are inaugurated with 3.615 visitors on the opening day.

1935 Boston Braves season

On opening day, Babe Ruth was part of all of the Braves' runs in a 4-2 win over the New York Giants.

Armando Sadiku

He made his debut for the club and in the Albanian Superliga on the opening day of the 2009–2010 season in a goaless draw at home against KS Shkumbini Peqin, Sadiku came on as a substitute for Brazilian forward Marko dos Santos on the 66th minute.

Bide-A-Wee Golf Course

In the spring of 1956, Harper, Ace Parker, Dizzy Dean, and Tommy Bolt participated in the Opening Day Exhibition at the course.

Camarine

On the opening day she started odds-on favourite for a five furlong Sweepstakes and won from Lord Egremont's filly (later named Miss Petworth).

Ciarán Toner

Toner had a race to be fit for the opening day of the 2009–10 football season after having problems with his ear drum in Rochdale's pre-season training camp in Marbella before suffering from shin splints which made him miss the rest of Rochdale's pre season matches.

Cincinnati Freedom

Cinci Freedom received the key to Cincinnati, but didn't wear it during the Cincinnati Reds Findlay Market Opening Day Parade on April 1, 2002, as planned, because she was judged too jumpy and nervous to participate.

Dann Stupp

He is co-author of Tom Browning's Tales from the Reds Dugout (2006, Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN 1-59670-046-7), and author of Opening Day at Great American Ball Park (Sports Publishing LLC, ISBN 1-58261-724-4, 2003).

Dodgeville, Wisconsin

A small section of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band appeared on opening day to provide entertainment, and former Green Bay Packer player Santana Dotson made an appearance to sign autographs.

Donald Forrester Brown

On the opening day of the battle, 15 September 1916, his unit was tasked with capturing a series of German held trenches from their position south-east of High Wood.

Ed Easley

Easley was the Visalia's Opening Day third baseman in 2009, as Konrad Schmidt was the starting catcher.

Eddie Logan Stakes

Begun in 2006, this race is named for Eddie Logan (May 20, 1910 - January 31, 2009), the "foot man," who worked at the track for 74 years, beginning on the track's opening day: December 24, 1934, shining shoes and cheering hearts.

Expo '75

The keynote speaker on opening day was American author James A. Michener.

Fabian Delph

In the 1–3 away win against Arsenal on the opening day of the season, Delph made a number of successful tackles and dribbles, as well as completing a large number of passes with a high accuracy percentage.

Fabian Klos

After two years in the Regionalliga Nord, he signed for Arminia Bielefeld of the 3. Liga alongside team-mate Maximilian Ahlschwede, and made his debut on the opening day of the 2011–12 season, as a substitute for Johannes Rahn in a 2–1 defeat against VfB Stuttgart II.

Fabien Lewis

Lewis signed for the Western Mass Pioneers in the USL Second Division in 2007, and made his professional debut on 27 April 2007 in the Pioneers' 2–0 opening day loss to the Charlotte Eagles.

Fabrizio Ravanelli

He scored a hat-trick on his league debut against Liverpool on the opening day of the 1996–97 season.

Fred Mader

The Illinois Attorney General's case was somewhat weak, however, and the trial court judge rebuked the state several times on the opening day for abusing the judicial process.

George Kay

The most significant events of the season involved Ted Drake, who scored a hat trick in the opening day's match against Bradford City, was sent off against Grimsby Town in December and, inevitably, was sold for a record fee of £6,000 to Arsenal in March.

Gerard Wiekens

Wiekens made his debut for Manchester City on the opening day of the 1997–98 season, scoring in a 2–2 draw with Portsmouth.

Gold Coast University Hospital

However, on Opening day, ABC News reporter Stephanie Capper made no comments that the $1.76 billion hospital had any facilities or fittings cut back.

Harry Geisel

He worked the only opening-day no-hitter in MLB history on April 16, 1940, thrown by Bob Gibson against the Chicago White Sox.

Isaac Vassell

Vassell made his professional debut on 6 August 2011, in the opening day draw with Shrewsbury Town at the New Meadow, coming on as a substitute for Tom Hitchcock.

J. R. Russell

He was re-signed to the Bucs' practice squad on November 30, 2005, and was competing for a spot on the opening day roster, along with former Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowler David Boston and rookie Maurice Stovall from Notre Dame.

Joe Mather

He was the last man cut in April 2009, for the team to get to the 25-man roster before Opening Day (Apr. 6).

José Offerman

On opening day 1993, he was the first batter to ever face the Florida Marlins, striking out against Charlie Hough.

Justin Germano

Despite pitching well in spring training and not giving up a single run, Germano did not win a spot on SoftBank's Opening Day roster, as the Hawks were at the limit of foreign players on the roster (Chris Aguila, Kameron Loe, D.J. Houlton, and Brian Falkenborg).

Ken Hollyman

He played in more than eighty wartime matches, serving with the Fleet Air Arm during the war, for the club before eventually making his league debut against Norwich City on the opening day of the 1946-47 season, the first season of league football following the end of World War II.

Knicks–Nets rivalry

The Knicks of the older NBA forced the Armory to back out three months before opening day, forcing the Nets to be left scrambling for a venue with opening day approaching, and it finally settled on the Teaneck Armory in Teaneck, New Jersey.

KVEN

One of his best episodes was the 5-way on-air round-table chat with Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and George H. W. Bush on 11/04/1991, the opening day of the Reagan Library.

Lauren Ervin

She made the 11-woman opening day roster but was cut when Sandrine Gruda reported to the team in July.

Linda Lovelace for President

After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.

Mike DiFelice

Since his retirement, Miguel Cairo is now the sole remaining active player from the 1998 Rays Opening Day roster.

MLB on Five

The show first aired on Opening Day in 1997 with a game between the defending World Series champion New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners.

Operation Nasrat

The opening day of the operation saw three simultaneous attacks; one strike employed a suicide bomber detonating himself at a police station in Nad Ali District, killing four officers and three civilians.

Own the Podium

Tabloid columnist Martin Samuel blamed the program for the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a luge athlete from Georgia who died on the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Pete Schourek

As Opening Day starter on April 1, 1996, he witnessed the death of umpire John McSherry, only seven pitches into the top of the 1st inning.

Roberto Castro

On May 9, 2013, Castro shot a 63 on the opening day of The Players Championship to equal the course record set by Fred Couples (1992) and Greg Norman (1994).

Royal Choral Society

The RCS was also invited twice to perform at Slovakia's equivalent to Glastonbury – Pohoda, (which means Wellbeing) where the choir closed the opening day of the festival with a candlelit midnight concert of Rachmaninoff's Vespers, followed by a performance in Bratislava.

Singapore International Energy Week

On the opening day, the second annual Singapore Energy Lecture was delivered by Daniel Yergin, the Chairman & co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

Stuart Laughton

Laughton founded Opening Day Recordings in 1993 as a means of promoting Canadian music and musicians such as pianist Janina Fialkowska, harpist Judy Loman, composer R. Murray Schafer, soprano Mary Lou Fallis and the Hannaford Street Silver Band with conductor Bramwell Tovey.

Tōhoku-Fukushi-dai-mae Station

Kazuhiro Sasaki (retired baseball pitcher, and alumni of nearby Tohoku Fukushi University) served as the ceremonial station master for the opening day.

United States House Committee on Homeland Security

The committee was made permanent when it was elevated to standing status by vote of the House of Representatives on January 4, 2005 on the opening day of the 109th Congress, again with Rep. Chris Cox as its first permanent Chairman.

Vlad Bujor

He scored his first goal against FC Universitatea Craiova, from the penalty spot, in the opening day of Liga II 2013-2014.

Wayne Bridge

He made his first-team debut on 16 August 1998 (the opening day of the 1998–99 season) coming on as a replacement for John Beresford, who had badly damaged his knee.