21.   Booty, the former high school All-American who used to be mentioned in the same breath as Peyton Manning, spent the past five years playing professional baseball.

22.   -- All professional baseball in Japan will shut down.

23.   A day the city where I now live sees players drafted for its first professional baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks.

24.   A professional golfer afflicted with that shot is much like a professional baseball player who cannot hit a curveball.

25.   Ackerley Group Inc. might be exploring a bid for the Florida Marlins professional baseball team, the company said, responding to local media reports.

26.   After all, professional baseball grew hugely popular simply as spectator entertainment.

27.   Alderson, a longtime general manager in Oakland, never played professional baseball, yet was considered one of the brightest at his job.

28.   All these guys are professional baseball players.

29.   All the players who took the field to a healthy round of cheers had been involved in professional baseball in some way.

30.   Bresnahan, then in his fourth year in professional baseball and still only a second-string minor league catcher, saw the writing on the dugout wall.