11.   Having never sat the bench in his baseball life, Durazo grew impatient.

12.   He changed positions -- from pitcher to first base -- very late in his baseball life, but still made the majors.

13.   He has sampled the capriciousness of modern American baseball life, and it has left its scars on his psyche.

14.   He never realized the effect his baseball life had had on so many people.

15.   Her duties include the underlying charge of helping minor league players from all over the world make the transition to the disciplined rigors of professional baseball life.

16.   His baseball life yo-yoed on.

17.   How do we tell him that nothing in his professional baseball life has prepared him for the months and years ahead in Boston?

18.   Improbably and imperfectly, the baseball lives of Al and Mark Leiter have finally intersected.

19.   In some ways, baseball life is tougher now, in other ways it is cushier.

20.   It is a fact of baseball life that if a team scores four runs in five games, it cannot win all five games.