51.   Brooks says baseball needs some positive exposure at a time when most of the talk revolves around the strike and how much money players are making.

52.   But a person as smart as Torre must know that baseball needs everything possible to market itself in a world teeming with other options.

53.   Bud Selig went to Washington Tuesday to tell a Senate Judiciary Committee on antitrust that baseball needs major changes in its financial structure to survive.

54.   But is it what baseball needed?

55.   But the meeting was basically a presentation by Major League Baseball on why baseball needs to realign.

56.   But what baseball needs, what all of professional sports needs, is players with a little more devotion to their game and less to themselves.

57.   Clearly, baseball needs a touch of socialism, the kind that has turned the NFL into a league of dreams.

58.   Elaine said baseball needs to end the strike pronto.

59.   Georgia baseball needed Tuesday night.

60.   He and his colleagues had spent an inordinate amount of time insisting that baseball needs considerable legal leeway to protect the dear beloved minor leagues from extinction.