81.   He is also too secure with his place in baseball history to volunteer for a rat race that he cannot win.

82.   He is the first Latin American player in baseball history to win the MVP award twice, which may speak to the same bias to which Melvin is alluding.

83.   He knows his place in baseball history is secure, that he is the standard against which great base stealers will forever be measured.

84.   He was a pre-eminent figure in Pittsburgh baseball history, alongside Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, the Waner brothers, Ralph Kiner and his teammate Roberto Clemente.

85.   He looks more like a grandfather watching a Little League game than the manager of the most storied franchise in baseball history.

86.   Hideki Irabu will plunge into baseball history Thursday night when he becomes the first Japanese player for the most storied and successful franchise in the sport.

87.   His numbers through the first five years of his career were better than any catcher in baseball history.

88.   Henderson and Sierra are hardly unique in baseball history, and championship teams can often fit in such players.

89.   Highlights from the Forearm Festival showed Mark McGwire on such a vigorous stampede into baseball history that the porcelain Jeff Manto doll atop the TV vibrated off the edge.

90.   His view is that he has come back to be a part of baseball history.