11.   When my kid was old enough to be interested, I gave him my old baseball cards to play with.

12.   Kids used to trade baseball cards.

13.   A mint baseball card that should be worth a lot to a collector.

14.   The incremental total for my collection of baseball cards.

15.   Already I am in training for opening day -- fondling my old baseball cards, dusting off my old bat and glove, stocking up on Kleenex.

16.   Although baseball cards remain the most popular of all sports trading cards, the most valuable card is that of recently retired basketball superstar Michael Jordan.

17.   Although he has several years left on his current contract, he would not be surprised if his baseball card someday lists stints for more than one club.

18.   Although publicly scorned by the higher-caste samurai, the burgeoning merchant class collected the prints as passionately as later generations would collect posters and baseball cards.

19.   Although it sells all kinds of sports cards, baseball cards still far outsell cards for other sports like football, basketball and hockey.

20.   Among preachers themselves, good sermons are prized like good poems, collected like baseball cards, critiqued like the latest films and novels.