91.   But his coach wanted Mike to skip it and play the baseball game.

92.   But if you prefer ball over decorating, you can take in a baseball game, watching teams from one of two professional leagues.

93.   But increasingly, church leaders are expanding youth programs beyond religious education and the occasional ice cream social or trip to a pro baseball game, youth ministers say.

94.   But playing baseball games could still be thrilling.

95.   But Strat-O-Matic has a breadth and depth I have not experienced in other baseball games.

96.   But the men with blue coats and badges and dogs created an atmosphere that intruded on the hallowed space of a baseball game.

97.   But the most important thing for Bobby, Mary and Bobby Jr. is that they will be together Saturday, which means more than one baseball game.

98.   But there will be no October baseball games in Los Angeles this year.

99.   But where, oh, where, were the old fight films, the long-concluded baseball games, the ancient college basketball games?

100.   But there, amid the history Thursday night, the October-like bunting and the Cooperstown sideshow, a baseball game broke out.