Some baseball TV news for you:

— ESPN2 and ESPN2 HD will televise the Major League Baseball opener between the World Series-champion New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox Sunday, April 4, at 8 p.m. from Fenway Park. It will be the fifth time in six years that a defending World Series champion opened the season on ESPN2. It is the second time in history that a stand-alone game between the two rivals has been the first game of the season for MLB. The two teams opened the 2005 season in Yankee Stadium. The Red Sox were the defending World Series champs.

— Bob Costas interviews the controversial Dick Allen on the next edition of MLB Network’s "Studio 42 with Bob Costas" at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Allen, who as the 1972 American League MVP while with the Chicago White Sox, discusses his career while playing in the volatile 1960s with the Philadelphia Phillies.

"All through the '60’s, we were a pretty radical bunch," Allen says in the interview. "They were marching everywhere, and the next thing I know, my name is 'Richie,’ not Dick here. Now it’s Richie, we’re at war at Vietnam, we got the hippies and we got the love people. We were a pretty radical bunch. The point of it is here, unless some of those rules change and we’re wearing the same uniform, that’s a team, hey, we’re going to act like a team, let the rules be the same of all of them. So, in defiance, I’m trying to get out of there and maybe people just look at here, he’s a troublemaker, I’m looking out for my own benefit."