By the time you read the next offering of the "Baseball Bullet-In" on Sunday, May 8, Golden Week 2005 will be over, and Japan pro baseball's first session of interleague play will have begun.
The interleague portion of this year's schedule will have its own season, May 6 through June 16, and its own sponsor, Nihon Seimei Life Insurance.
Each team in the Central and Pacific Leagues will play three home and three away games against each club from the opposing league in the latest example in which Japanese baseball has followed Major League Baseball in making changes to the game.