When Higgins first took his job, Samuell was a state power in baseball, having won a title in 1965, the only baseball champion to come from the Dallas school system.

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Mr. McCourt's action flouts one of baseball's most sacred tenets: That the commissioner's power to act "in the best interests of baseball" is essentially unlimited, giving him the right ban players and executives, reject unfair trades and, when necessary, control the operations of franchises.

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Another retort is that it is fantasy baseball to believe the Commissioner would just give up his considerable power to veto loans and do whatever else he thinks is in the best interests of baseball by allowing a public corporation to make decisions that he cannot control.

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In basketball, the gridiron, baseball, soccer, countless examples of the power of cohesion between players exist.

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It is removing the baseball-size tips from its Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles and installing a low-power laser in those tips.

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Good, solid baseball gets you the first group, but you need to market some personalities and star power to get the second.

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The man who changed baseball forever by out-homering entire teams, by compelling owners who saw the drawing power of his homers to liven up the ball, and by pushing the New York Yankees to such heights that the team built a new stadium perfectly designed for his swing, is still the king of the long ball.

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