1.   And few players of any age are hitting the baseball any better than Baines in this first round of the playoffs.

2.   Bonds hits baseballs into coves very well.

3.   A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

4.   A popular shibboleth of sports journalism holds that no task in sport is harder than hitting a baseball with a bat.

5.   After all, while Yastrzemski might not be big on names and faces, he has helped McGuire hit the baseball hard again.

6.   But hitting a baseball is one thing and hitting a golf ball is another, and Damon had never swung a golf club in his life.

7.   But it is time to start hitting the baseball.

8.   But Mr. Olympia would have to be able first to hit a baseball, widely regarded as the most difficult feat in all of sports.

9.   Darryl Strawberry hits baseballs.

10.   Eric Karros is lugging around a left shoulder that is so sore he can barely hit a baseball to the warning track.