11.   Any other enterprise that treats its customers the way baseball has for the past two decades would have been out of business for at least a decade.

12.   Apologists and advocates for hockey fights, including the Canadian commentator Don Cherry, often say that baseball has more bench-clearing brawls than hockey.

13.   At that time baseball had a compensation pool from which a team would select a player after losing a free agent.

14.   Baseball does have one player who has captured the pocketbooks of advertisers, just not in the U.S.

15.   Baseball has a long memory.

16.   Baseball has a long, rich history here.

17.   Baseball has a time-honored tradition of stealing signs.

18.   Baseball has a way of leveling a severe imbalance, so it figured the Yankees would finally show up Sunday.

19.   Baseball has an antitrust exemption, but Congress could end that at any time.

20.   Baseball has had a hard time attracting fans, he said, because it is hard to understand because of its large amount of strategy.