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| 1972 | After playing a round of golf in West Palm Beach with his coaches on Easter Sunday, Mets manager Gil Hodges suffers a fatal heart attack two days shy of his 48th birthday. The club will name the current first-base coach and former Yankee skipper Yogi Berra to run the team when the strike-delayed season begins. |
| 1984 | For the first time in ten years, the Mets lose on Opening Day, bowing to the Reds, 8-1. The last time the team dropped a season opener was in 1974, when Mike Schmidt hit a two-run walk-off home run off Tug McGraw, giving the Phillies a 5-4 victory over New York at Veterans Stadium. |
| 2003 | Todd Zeile homers in his first at-bat as a Yankee, becoming the only major leaguer to hit a home run for ten different teams, surpassing Tommy Davis, who went deep for nine big-league clubs. In addition to homering with the Bronx Bombers, the infielder has also gone deep for the Cardinals, Cubs, Phillies, Orioles, Dodgers, Marlins, Rangers, Mets, and Rockies. |
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