61.   Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig wants to shift authority after this year from the league presidents to Sandy Alderson, his executive vice president for baseball operations.

62.   Commissioner Bud Selig put his staff in charge of umpires last year after owners abolished the league offices and league presidents.

63.   Coleman concluded a proposed restructuring transferring umpires, player discipline and scheduling to Alderson would leave league presidents merely figureheads.

64.   Gone will be league presidents issuing suspensions.

65.   He had been resisting the efforts of commissioner Bud Selig to switch control of umpires to his office from the league presidents.

66.   Jackie Autry of the California Angels and Bill Giles of the Philadelphia Phillies were selected Wednesday as honorary league presidents by major league baseball.

67.   League president Greg Stefan said lawyers are going through the paperwork and the deal is expected to close Wednesday, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Monday.

68.   League president James Callahan did not return several phone messages.

69.   League president Mike McCall said he recalled at least one other similar arrest last year, but the charges in that case were dropped after mediation.

70.   Mrs. Madikizela-Mandela, who was divorced from President Nelson Mandela last year, was re-elected as league president last month.