11.   Forty years ago, a typical fan might go out to watch even a losing team because he wanted to see baseball.

12.   Guys like George Will and John Updike who see baseball less as a sport than a metaphor for some cosmic reality.

13.   He used to be the wise old owl that saw more baseball and played more baseball and knew more baseball than anyone on the planet.

14.   I come to see baseball.

15.   I come to see competitive baseball.

16.   I began to see baseball as one of the last bastions of white male athletic preserve.

17.   I see baseball, football players who want to be the best.

18.   If Melvin wants to see baseball, he has to leave his office and make the walk across the compound to the minor-league fields.

19.   It wants to see baseball without the threat of having another season or World Series hijacked.

20.   Just wanted to see baseball, I guess.