31.   And Nolan Ryan, the baseball player, is honorary chairman of his campaign, in another pitch to mainstream respectability.

32.   And Kinsella, of course, raises baseball players from the dead to compete on a cornfield.

33.   And if Cuban baseball players keep defecting, it may soon make no sense at all.

34.   And imagine a ball hit by a major-league baseball player striking a batting-practice pitcher in the head or the chest during warmups.

35.   And now commissioner Bud Selig is sending them baseball players.

36.   And this was also a time when Sanders was at the height of his double-duty stint as a baseball player.

37.   And when baseball players from Little League through college go to the bat rack, they may grab an Easton bat.

38.   Another highly touted teen-age Cuban baseball player defected from the national junior team in Illinois on Sunday, joining catcher Yalian Serrano, who defected nine days ago.

39.   Argue whether Ty Cobb was the greatest baseball player ever, but debate not that he was the most obsessed.

40.   As a catcher in the trapeze act, he likens himself to a baseball player -- but not the one behind the plate.