1.   And baseball men, not the executives bent on forcing the striking major leaguers under a salary cap, are left to deal with it.

2.   And when a real baseball man enters the room, hide your faces in shame.

3.   Any baseball man would learn to be meticulously prepared if his first job in baseball was working for George Steinbrenner, the most demanding owner in baseball.

4.   Baseball men are paid to know when a player crosses the line from useful to useless.

5.   Baseball men knew success was built on good scouting, good drafting, good farm systems.

6.   Bobby Cox has been too much the baseball man to think otherwise.

7.   Both are excellent baseball men.

8.   Branch Rickey, the president of the Dodgers, was daring to go where no baseball man had dared, and Sukeforth was to be his instrument.

9.   -- and both are knowledgeable baseball men.

10.   A baseball man.