1.   League president Malcolm Ganner presented the trophies.

2.   Because league presidents ruled on the last two grievances of this kind, Selig does not feel he is immersed in a conflict.

3.   Before becoming a league president, Coleman served in New Jersey state government with Whitman when Thomas H. Kean was governor.

4.   A ballplayer, a doctor, a league president.

5.   After X-raying it at the American League offices in New York Monday, league president Budig declared it clean.

6.   Budig knows that Bill White left his National League office denigrating the idea of league presidents.

7.   But it did not take long for Chase Carey, the co-chief operating officer of News Corp. to know where Neil Austrian, the league president, was headed.

8.   But league presidents use videotapes for other matters, for determining fines and suspensions, for example, when players brawl on the field.

9.   By dismissing the league presidents, Leonard Coleman of the NL and Gene Budig of the AL, Selig showed last year he was not bound by tradition.

10.   But when serious incidents arise, I think the two league presidents have to back us up.