NEW TEAMS WILL OPEN ON APRIL 5

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 24, 1993                   TAG: 9301240142
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C10   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short
NEW TEAMS WILL OPEN ON APRIL 5
The Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins, baseball's two newest teams, play their first major-league games on April 5, the first day of the 1993 season.
The National League has five games scheduled for Opening Day, including the traditional opener at Cincinnati. There will be four games in the American League.
The NL Opening Day schedule has Colorado at the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Florida's Joe Robbie Stadium. Also in the NL will be Montreal at Cincinnati, Atlanta at Chicago and Philadelphia at Houston in the league's only night game.
The AL openers have Texas at Baltimore, the New York Yankees at Cleveland, Boston at Kansas City and Detroit at Oakland in a night game.
All teams in both leagues are scheduled to open at home by Tuesday, April 13.
There are no doubleheaders scheduled in the AL and two in the National League. Each leagues has 1,134 games scheduled. The AL will play 774 of its games at night, one more than the NL.
With the addition of the two teams, each NL team will play each team in its own division 13 times and will play each team in the other division 12 times, just as in the American League.
The All-Star Game is scheduled for July 13 at Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB