21.   It took Muser time to recover emotionally and physically from the explosion, and baseball became a way to forget his pain and anguish.

22.   Major league baseball has become one of the biggest whores of all.

23.   Now a student at the University of Costa Rica and a certified English professor, he realizes that baseball has become the sport of the next generation.

24.   Nine-dollar baseballs become precious gems if they are in the right place at the right time.

25.   Rotisserie baseball has become an institution.

26.   Some consider that triumph the pivotal moment in franchise history, a week when baseball became hip in an increasingly hip city.

27.   Some pessimists fear baseball could eventually become a novelty sport, like croquet or water polo.

28.   Thanks to the staggering deals by the Murdochs of the game, baseball is becoming less competitive because of the greater division between the haves and the have-nots.

29.   The baby is one of the few people in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Wednesday night for whom playoff baseball has not become old hat.

30.   The closer you got to the field, the better baseball became.