83 Days to Opening Day

April 5, 2007 is Opening Day at Fox Cities Stadium. That is just 83 days from today. The Timber Rattlers are taking on the Peoria Chiefs and Ryne Sandberg is making his minor league managerial debut in that game.

Appropriately enough, the number 83 is represented by Sandberg.


Sandberg scored 83 runs for the Spartanburg Phillies of the Western Carolinas League in 1979.

The above picture is from The Ryne Sandberg Home Page, a fan site that looks like it hasn't been updated since early in the 1996 season. Think of clicking on that link as an archeological expidition to the early days of web design.