31.   He calls himself an ambassador for Major League Baseball International, but what he really does is missionary work, teaching and preaching the gospel of baseball abroad.

32.   He became an ambassador for Israel with several postings.

33.   He is an activist scientist, engaged in the world and its often-acrimonious debates, a globetrotting ambassador for biodiversity.

34.   He is an ambassador for classical music in the way that Wynton Marsalis is for jazz or Michael Feinstein is for the American songbook.

35.   He has been a great ambassador for the NBA and we are going to miss his glib way of talking.

36.   He speaks eight languages and is kind of an ambassador for the city.

37.   He is viewed as a generous ambassador for baseball, a man who offers chances for poor young men who would otherwise have none.

38.   He was remembered Monday as a dedicated family man and an ambassador for his sport.

39.   He was an ambassador for the sport, a beacon.

40.   Her husband, who was known as one of the strongest ambassadors for tough spots, said he would go along.