Today is the first day of the MLB season and we figured we’d bring you all the stories about baseball and ping pong going around right now:

• The Tampa Bay Rays have become entrenched in the Floridian ping pong community
• From USA Today: “Left fielder Ryan Braun spent his winter playing ping-pong in Malibu, Calif., with neighbor and former NBA star Reggie Miller. Braun says he lost every game. Then again, retired tennis star John McEnroe is the only one to have beaten Miller.”
• JJ Hardy’s brother and ping pong help keep him grounded
• Barry Bonds’ ping pong balls were shrunken and disfigured
• College baseball: the Oklahoma Sooners are giving away a ping pong table to a lucky student in attendance this weekend

Previously in baseball and Table Tennis Nation:

• The Boston Red Sox have some ping pong action going on this year
• Same for the Orioles
• JJ Hardy on how he became a ping pong stud
• Hunter Pence uses ping pong as a training method
• Ping pong made CC Sabathia’s favorite Christmas

Enjoy the start of baseball today and tomorrow everyone