11.  The Yankees will have their four finest players back in Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Orlando Hernandez and Mariano Rivera.

12.  Considered by many to be perhaps the finest player in the history of the game, Sampras is notching up the numbers to prove it.

13.  Some people call Ripken the finest player to wear an Oriole uniform.

14.  Overall, however, Martin showed the kind of form which has made her the finest female player of the nineties.