71.   From leadoff hitter Chuck Knoblauch down, it will be as if Torre is changing the order of the numbers on a winning lottery ticket.

72.   Giants manager Dusty Baker lost Darren Lewis, a capable leadoff hitter and an exceptional base stealer, in the Sanders trade.

73.   Gone was the leadoff hitter and clubhouse leader.

74.   Grissom, also a leadoff hitter, steals fewer bases than Lofton, although he hits more home runs.

75.   General manager Steve Phillips points out that there are few prototypical leadoff hitters around these days, anyway.

76.   He fanned leadoff hitter Mark Grudzielanek three times.

77.   He answered with a big compliment to leadoff hitter Gerald Williams.

78.   He has been disappointing as a leadoff hitter and the Yankees would like to have more power from left field.

79.   He is the leadoff hitter, the starting center fielder and the man who made Lee Tinsley expendable.

80.   He needed a leadoff hitter and center fielder.