1. Baseball's exclusion from the Olympic program after Beijing could make the game extinct in Russia just as it was starting to flourish.
2. It wouldn't be fair to blame the spectators, who mostly were watching the first baseball game of their lives.
3. " Stan will be remembered in baseball annals as one of the pillars of our game, " Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said.
4. Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters during the game baseball was still working on a solution to the problem of drugs in sport.
5. Winners will watch every game of the WBC live and get the chance to meet baseball personalities.
6. Torre and Winfield acknowledged that baseball needs to repair its image, sullied by allegations of widespread drug use in the game.
7. The first ball used in Saturday's game will go into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
8. Foreigners formed the Shanghai Baseball Club in 1863 and the game slowly grew in popularity among Chinese youth.
9. Fans seek autographs from the Los Angeles Dodgers'Mark Ellis before a spring training baseball game against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday.
10. President Hugo Chavez announced a dual system for the fixed rate bolivar on Friday night while much of the country was watching a baseball game.