41.   What Burns now hath wrought certainly is brief in comparison with his celebrated examinations of the Civil War, the West and American baseball.

42.   When it comes to American baseball, however, Burns has eschewed what diplomats sometimes call constructive ambiguity.

43.   Oscar Machado was looking for American baseball players to reinforce his team, now in the semifinals of the Venezuelan Winter League.

44.   After all of these years, American baseball star Ozzie Smith still thinks time is on his side.

45.   After all, Japan did not have wild expectations about its team in a game which is so much more foreign to them than American baseball.

46.   American baseball legend Joe DiMaggio awakened from a coma Friday, hours after he became unconscious overnight and his doctor said his chances of recovery were slim.

47.   American baseball legend Mickey Mantle, recovering from a liver transplant, underwent surgery Friday morning for a problem caused by post-operative bleeding.

48.   American baseball fans are slowly starting to come back, judging by attendance figures from the first week of the season.

49.   American baseball star Mark McGwire became a flash point at the world drug summit.

50.   American professional baseball teams have long been admired on the island and are followed as closely here as the national teams.