31.   This is the World Series baseball wanted to offer America as a bouquet to make up for all past transgressions.

32.   Torre sounded a more leery about the way baseball wants umpires to interpret pitches that hit batters in the head or come close to doing so.

33.   When he went downhill as a person, baseball wanted no part of him and sent him away last season to battle a substance abuse problem.

34.   Why baseball would ever want to put that lesson in a textbook, let alone make a required part of the curriculum, defies sense.

35.   Yes, the winter meetings are back in earnest, just the way major league baseball wanted them to be.

36.   All over, baseball wants to give back something to the fans.

37.   Baseball wants to drop two struggling teams to improve its overall financial health.

38.   Baseball Wants To Realign, But How?

39.   Major league baseball wants to limit how often journalists can transmit information and how many photographs they can send out while the game is in progress.