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Citi Field opens with college baseball game

It wasn't a major-league baseball game. It wasn't even a major-league exhibition game. But Sunday will go down in history as the day Citi Field opened to paying customers as St. John's faced Georgetown in a college baseball game.

The Mets' new stadium passed its first test with no problems and gave fans a glimpse of a glitzy ballpark that was supposed to evoke memories of Ebbets Field, but...

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