71.   Baseball has to look at the situation and maybe do something about it.

72.   Baseball may have to examine another potential conflict if Cablevision buys the Mets.

73.   Baseball simply has no face, not after a year of featuring the dour sneers of Bud Selig and Don Fehr as its poster boys.

74.   Baseball always has a small army of out-of-work former managers and coaches.

75.   Baseball does have remaining problems, but it also has a treasured asset in its natural pecking order, based mostly in its minor-league spawning grounds.

76.   Baseball had Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

77.   Baseball had this special edge on all the other professional sports.

78.   Baseball has a contested beginning, a vast middle and no end.

79.   Baseball has a statistic for nearly everything.

80.   Baseball has always had this dreamy quality, this ability to take you away from the rush, even for a few moments.