31.   It recently set its new Asian strategy into play, first by tying up with South Korean car maker Samsung.

32.   Look, Bobby Bonilla gets young Indians starter Jaret Wright out of the first by bouncing into a double play.

33.   Mike Piazza led off the ninth with a single to left and was replaced at first by Jay Payton.

34.   Pavlik then made his only real mistake in the first by walking Ray Durham on four pitches.

35.   Pena became the second manager of Latin descent to be hired this spring, Luis Pujols being the first by the Tigers after Phil Garner was fired.

36.   Prudhomme said this farewell tour -- a first by any drag-racing personality -- has helped him mellow out.

37.   She said she was intimidated at first by working with Rade Serbedzija, who plays her bitter father.

38.   Shortly thereafter, Florida took two noteworthy shots at Richter, first by right wing Dave Nemirovsky and a follow-up by center Chris Wells.

39.   Some of the wolves reacted at first by pacing inside the pens, approaching the opening only cautiously.

40.   Starting a millennium or so ago, the species was pursued on a large scale, at first by Basque whalers around the Bay of Biscay.