21.   He is brash, cocky, paranoid, arrogant, controversial and amazingly candid, all the things old-line baseball men detest.

22.   He is not only a good baseball man, but a good man, period.

23.   He made normally cautious baseball men gush.

24.   He is a great baseball man.

25.   He was a baseball man.

26.   He made us remember Lou Gehrig, another quintessential baseball man who supplied the game with some of its richest lore.

27.   He won no pennants as a manager, but Rigney was a shrewd baseball man who knew just about everyone in the game.

28.   He was seen as either a folksy genius, a true baseball man, or a complete dunderhead.

29.   Hicks will have to look hard to find a better baseball man, but maybe this team does need a new perspective.

30.   Hershiser is yet another good baseball man who knows plenty about pitching.