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Rays open season at Steinbrenner Field

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Regular season Major League Baseball debuts in Tampa today as the Tampa Bay Rays trade the damaged dome of Tropicana Field for the open air of Steinbrenner Field.
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Miser, a 27-year-old who debuted last August, entered as a defensive replacement in the eighth.
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