11.   This ballot will endeavor to pick a team based on merit and also ignore, for the most part, players whose seasons have been shortened by injury.

12.   Everybody keeps trying to make him play, or ask if he will play if they shorten the season.

13.   In southern Africa, the rainy season ran October through January, but it recent years shifting weather patterns have generally shortened the season.

14.   Sanders played outfield for the Cincinnati Reds before the season was shortened by the strike.