Today isn’t a national holiday, but it should be.
Today is Opening Day for the 2019 Major League Baseball season. Although the season technically kicked off last week in Japan with a two-game series between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics that saw Japanese native and baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki emotionally announce his retirement, today marks the official start of the season.
The baseball offseason brought drama in the form of high-profile players searching for new contracts before March. Names like Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, J.T. Realmuto and Josh Donaldson all joined new teams for this spring, some even joining division rivals of their previous teams.