From Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, California, the New York Mets meet the Los Angeles Dagers in the Dodgers home opener.

Rangel beer brings your National League baseball with the New York Mets.

Rangel, New York City's largest selling beer.

And what a remarkable thing that is.

In New York, a city of so many different people with different tastes, one beer has become

the favorite, Rheingold Extra Dry.

Now, we don't know why so many people like our beer, but we must be doing something right.

Tonight's game is also brought to you by Cool.

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And by the Shell Oil Company, makers of Super Shell, the gasoline for good mileage.

Stop at the clean white pump for Super Shell.

Well, hi, everybody.

Bob Murphy with Lindsay Nelson and Ralph Kanner from Dodgers Stadium.

Player introductions have just been completed, a crowd of some 45,000 anticipated,

magnificent midsummer weather, a perfect night for a ball game.

The pitchers tonight, Claudeau Steen, for the Dodgers, on their home opener

for the New York Mets 43-year-old Warren Spahn. And we'll be posting the lineups and the batting orders and getting underway with the play-by-play in just a minute. Say, is this one of those nights when you're not yourself, even if you are, you'll feel more so when you listen to this.

Oh, I'm not to meselfth, pal.

Money dear, money dear, I'm not to myself with how.

This song gets sung over and over at Irish parties and picnics,

until the singers raise a ferocious thirst then they change their tune

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