51.   Livan Hernandez will start opening day, likely against Brown.

52.   Major League Baseball teams will play about a dozen fewer home games this year because the strike delayed opening day by three weeks.

53.   More and more, it seems that opening day is the only spring day when baseball gets to bask in its faded spotlight, if not the sunlight.

54.   More than that, the bullpen spoiled it for Harnisch, who faced major league hitters for the first time since opening day.

55.   Nixon could well be batting leadoff and playing left field on opening day, but what if Klesko becomes a new man in spring training?

56.   No one can legally target salmon before opening day so little information is available before then.

57.   No one joked about his contract, or whether he would be a Los Angeles Dodger opening day.

58.   Not since opening day have the Giants been able to put together a complete game.

59.   One thing is certain, Hentgen will start opening day, Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said.

60.   Opening day at the ballpark. . . .