"I played great baseball for a year," Rodriguez said.

We've been playing great baseball all year, but this is when it really matters the most.

The Yankees showed up in plenty of time for last night's game, they just didn't play great baseball when they got there.

Maybe it is the equivalent of a great pitcher trying to become even greater by doctoring the baseball.

He came here to have fun and play great baseball.

And the White Sox have played great baseball this year.

The 1984 team did provide the gateway to a World Series championship and more than a few years of great baseball.

The Astros were playing great baseball throughout the season.

"He's not happy," someone once said of the baseball great who liked to chirp that nice days call for at least two games.

Few of us can avoid wishing that great baseball players would also be wonderful human beings.