Major League Baseball Opening Day Timeline

2014

National Holiday petition

In 2014, Budweiser and Ozzie Smith started a petition to make Opening Day a National Holiday.

1950

The first opening night game

In 1950, the St. Louis Cardinals became the first MLB team to open their season with a night game.

1910

A president throws the first pitch

William Howard Taft threw out the first pitch attended the home opener in DC in 1910, making him the first president to throw out a first pitch.