BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJOR LEAGUES : For Openers, It Was a Record Start

The 28 major league teams drew a record 1,392,101 fans for baseball’s opening days, breaking the record of 1,219,800 set in 1988 when there were 26 clubs.

The expansion Colorado Rockies established three attendance records, including a crowd of 80,227, the largest opening-day attendance in history. The previous record was 78,762 for San Francisco at Los Angeles, April 18, 1958, the first year after the Giants and Dodgers moved from New York to California.

The Rockies’ opening-day crowd also was a single game record and the total of 212,475 for three games against Montreal set a record for a three-game series, breaking the mark of 188,081 for the New York Yankees at Cleveland Aug. 6-8, 1948.

Six other teams set opening day records. They were the New York Yankees with 56,704; Toronto, 50,533; Cincinnati, 55,456; the New York Mets, 53,134; Philadelphia, 60,985; and San Francisco, 56,689.