31.   This is what baseball has come to -- a replacement groupie.

32.   This one, considering where baseball was coming from a year ago, was almost a promotional marathon.

33.   Two decades later, though, baseball came calling again.

34.   When baseball came back, Barkman and her friend, Amanda Troyer of Millersburg, Ohio, decided to attend.

35.   Yet baseball came back, played its games, did its small part to restore normalcy.

36.   Playoff baseball is coming a day early, again.

37.   And so, in this land where baseball always came for its spring ritual of renewal, the game has returned this fall to decide a champion.

38.   Baseball is coming to British television.

39.   But as Rhodes proved Monday night, Japanese baseball has come a long way since the days of Randy Bass.

40.   Disney president Robert Iger said baseball came as a condition of sale from News Corp. and Saban.