MLB Opening Day Baseballs?

[tigerdale]

MLB seems to have been hit & miss weather they used opening day baseballs over the years, seems to me the first ones I noticed were around 2000 & the last time I saw any was 2006...

[mbrieve]

I was looking at some Opening Day pictures and found this:

Johnny Bench before throwing the first pitch...looks like a logo ball???


Zoom and rotate, sure enough


Hope this helps! Also, a bunch of other great high quality Opening Day photos on this flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24420819@N06/

[lehmsbobby]

i was at the first two pre season games at the twins' new target field and got tossed a ball above the twins dugout. The ball has an opening year logo which is pretty cool.

hope this helps

[ballhawknet]

i was at the first two pre season games at the twins' new target field and got tossed a ball above the twins dugout. The ball has an opening year logo which is pretty cool.

hope this helps

Im glad to hear that ! Was not usre if they had started using the
inaugural Target Field balls yet or if they were waiting until the actual
opening day next week.

Now I just have to cross my fingers they still have some in supply when
their road trip reaches Chicago on Friday . Usually they only bring so
many with them for bp....then replenish from the home team. So with 4 games at the Angels prior to the Sox im probably going to be out of luck

[allstarsplus]

In 2009, most teams didn't get their shipments of the Opening Day logo'd balls.

I hope this year they all had them!

[tigerdale]

I asked Marc & he said the Tigers didn't have an opening day logo on the baseballs.

[indyred]

One is up on MLB.com auctions with the opening day logo from Dodgers-Pirates game....
http://auction.mlb.com/cgi-bin/ncomm...unbr=118829251

anyone know if the Twins used Opening Day logo Balls in first game at Target Field vs Boston? or did they use new Target Field logo balls. I did hear the Twins did get first home run ball from the new stadium from the kid that got it.