11.   And professional baseball will end as we know it.

12.   And the national pastime, professional baseball, again drew fans to stadiums from coast to coast.

13.   Andy represents the third of four generations of MacPhails in professional baseball.

14.   As a young man, Stricker was smitten by professional baseball, football and jazz.

15.   Bakersfield was the last professional baseball team to name a manager this season, hiring former Yankees great Graig Nettles on Monday.

16.   Basketball should have some kind of national structure, as in professional baseball.

17.   Before the Reds draft him, they want Sanders to call and persuade Godwin to play professional baseball while playing college football for North Carolina.

18.   Bell pitched in the final game of the Little League World Series for his Tampa, Fla., team, but he had never pitched in professional baseball.

19.   Ben Grieve may have passed on an opportunity to further his academic career, but he has graduated to another level of professional baseball.

20.   Boggs and Ripken were the third basemen in the longest professional baseball game ever played.