1.   Baseball has tried to improve its strike-damaged image by introducing interleague games and wild-card playoffs.

2.   Baseball has tried with giveaways at games and by instituting an inner-city participation program.

3.   Baseball is trying to develop a computerized simulator that would enable umpires to practice calling strikes the way they are defined in the rule book.

4.   Baseball is trying to rebuild its image in an increasingly competitive market.

5.   Believe it or not, baseball is trying to play its pennant-race card.

6.   All of that good will was erased when Major League baseball tried to terminate its deal with ESPN, its partner of the last decade.

7.   But baseball tried to go from hideous to Hideo in no-time flat Monday.

8.   If a hearing determines that she did do so, baseball may try to use that as the final straw that would put her out of baseball.

9.   If it seemed that baseball was trying to make amends, it was.

10.   It says here that major-league baseball is trying to win back fans who were alienated by the so-called labor dispute between ballplayers and team owners.