| | TBSN / Tampa Bay Sports Net - TAMPA BAY DEVIL RAYS NEWS - DEVIL RAYS TO OPEN SEASON vs. YANKEES IN TOKYO, JAPAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced today that the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays will open the 2004 championship season with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, March 30 and Wednesday, March 31. |
 | | As a member of MLB s International Committee, I think these games are important to the future of Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball International, the Devil Rays organization, the City of St. Petersburg and its sister city in Japan, Takamatsu, as well as the U.S. economy." |
 | | Major League Baseball has an extensive history in Japan as teams of Major League players have participated in barnstorming tours of Japan as early as 1908, and Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association have sponsored eight off-season All-Star Tours in Japan since 1986. |
| www.tbsports.net /team_news/rays/2003/1217_rays_open_in_japan.htm (800 words) |