21.   Colangelo also is in charge of the new baseball team in Phoenix and Ainge, lest we forget, knows that sport, too.

22.   Clemens, meanwhile, had taken a couple of steps toward the first-base line, asking home plate umpire Charlie Reliford for a new baseball.

23.   Construction of a new baseball stadium for the Tigers and a new football stadium for the Lions, both downtown, is expected to begin this year.

24.   Despite his grand ambitions, Giuliani so far has been able to get approval only for two new minor-league baseball stadiums.

25.   Drawings of the new baseball stadium, which will have a retractable roof for very hot days, hang in the Houston Library.

26.   Few greet a new baseball season with the fervor of big-league spring training cities.

27.   Finally, Rep. Ralph Hall of Rockwall found inspiration in a new baseball stadium in his home state, The Ballpark in Arlington.

28.   Financial aspects of the deal were not disclosed, but the first fruits of the partnership will be two new baseball games.

29.   Five Novembers ago Nied was the fresh-faced future of a bustling new baseball enterprise in Colorado.