1.   Baseball fan that he is, Ozersky sometimes wishes he could just grip the ball, just hold the gem that changed his life.

2.   Boxing gave him great hands, enabled him to grip a ball and gave him upper-body strength.

3.   But he did complain that the cold, windy weather affected his ability to grip the ball on his put-away pitch, the slider.

4.   Five days later, he had trouble gripping the ball during a game at Kansas City.

5.   He could not even grip the ball, much less throw strikes.

6.   He knew the major leagues meant he could keep playing the game he had loved since he could grip a ball.

7.   If Saunders could grip the ball well enough in the numbing cold to consistently throw strikes with his curveball, the Indians would have been in trouble.

8.   Maybe the general sloppiness could be attributed to the players having trouble gripping the ball in the cold weather.

9.   Min Soo was showing Kim how to grip the ball before the Diamondbacks coaching staff stepped in and explained to Min Soo that his job is to coach English.

10.   One caller to a St. Louis radio station said Banks, who has had a fumbling problem, would grip the ball better if he quit biting his fingernails.