1.   And players, more likely to be foreign-born and otherwise less steeped in baseball tradition, may not know Bobby Thompson from Lea Thompson.

2.   Arm-flaying, spittle-spraying demonstrations are as much a baseball tradition as bean balls and crotch-scratching, and no less charming.

3.   Baseball tradition is just going to hell.

4.   Baseball tradition has stood in the way of these type of confrontations.

5.   Baseball tradition has taken its final, mortal hit.

6.   Baseball tradition is embryonic here.

7.   Baseball traditions may die, but they die hard.

8.   But Parque and his teammates hear the fists of change beating on Olympic baseball tradition.

9.   Changing positions for the perceived good of the team is an old baseball tradition.

10.   Chewing tobacco is one baseball tradition he has never revered.