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Major League Baseball
Opening Day 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt throws the opening ball |
April 2, 2001 -- The Major League Baseball season got under way Sunday when the Texas Rangers played the Toronto Blue Jays in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (The Blue Jays pounded the Rangers 8-1.) Morning Edition has a special segment planned for Monday morning to mark Opening Day.
Calling Sunday's game on ESPN was Jon Miller, a baseball play-by-play veteran. Morning Edition host Bob Edwards spoke to Miller about the upcoming baseball season. They discuss the chances that anyone can beat the New York Yankees this year, the battle between the rich and not-so-rich franchises, and the prospects of another labor dispute at the season's end.
Listen to the full-length Morning Edition interview with Jon Miller.
listen to the Morning Edition segment.
The segment also includes Bob's interview with Paul Dickson, co-author of Baseball - The President's Game. The connection between baseball and the nation's chief executive has taken on new interest this year, now that the former owner of the Texas Rangers is in the White House. But Dickson notes that the link between presidents and baseball goes back -- way back -- to the time that Gen. George Washington and his troops played a game called "rounders," the British game that evolved into baseball.
Listen to the full-length Morning Edition interview with Paul Dickson.
listen to the Morning Edition segment.
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