31.   It would seem natural for each league to get one new franchise.

32.   Just as most companies enter new markets without expecting immediate profitability, baseball would probably need to view new foreign franchises as an investment in their initial years.

33.   Karros was referring to the expansion fees levied this week for new franchises in Phoenix and Tampa Bay.

34.   Local government and business officials, meanwhile, scramble to find someone to buy the team, or perhaps a new franchise.

35.   NDI, the new franchise owner, has diverse holdings.

36.   Nonetheless, the promise of Japanese backing cheered the league enough to approve Tampa Bay as a new franchise, along with Ottawa.

37.   Next week Accorsi has to decide which five players to expose for the dispersal pool for the new Cleveland franchise.

38.   No matter how fresh-faced and hopeful the new franchises were, once on the field the gap between them and the opposition was clearly a yawning one.

39.   One report said the two owners would be allowed to take four major-league players and four minor-league prospects from their organizations to their new franchises.

40.   Patrick resigned to take over a new franchise in the Pacific Coast League.