Mayfield suggested yesterday that the storybook finish might have looked a little too fishy to those who had never watched a Nascar race.

With two victories yesterday in the Big East Conference baseball tournament, Providence College continued to transform its lame-duck season into a possible storybook finish.

But the Yankees managed to pull off a crazy comeback and give the night a different sort of storybook finish.

He shoots and kills Ali to put a sad ending on what would have been a storybook finish.

For its storybook finish, the night was Gutsu's, and there was no hiding her satisfaction.

It was not, however, a storybook finish to an illustrious career.

"It's a storybook finish," designated hitter Johnny Damon(notes) said.

Actually, it was no call, no foul, no storybook finish for Seton Hall.

I really thought this was going to be a storybook finish.

There was talk throughout the weekend about a storybook finish, as if the hero of pro basketball's annual playground game was preordained.