MORE: Chaparral's all-time baseball lineup card. 7. Mark Trafton, LF, 1983. A great athlete with a tremendous arm, he could run, hit with power and made good contact.

The World Series gets back underway tonight in San Francisco. From my friend Ben Walker -- regular first baseman for Team New York in the annual media game -- here's a quirky story about lineup cards.

Central Texas softball coaches have learned to make their lineup cards in pencil. Permanent ink is for suckers — because you never know what tomorrow might bring.

No, that was not a misprint on the OU softball lineup card this weekend. Indeed, that was freshman Sydney Barker going from the bench to the three-hole by the time the Norman Regional was completed.

Across the baseball landscape these days, most lineup cards are computer-generated -- Christenson's are different, his calligraphy skill adding an artist's flourish.

The one and only, Jocelyn Alo. Alo has gone down in history as one of the greatest softball players in history. She would headline the all-time lineup of all-time lineups, if it were to exist, let ...

Glendale Apollo is having one of its greatest baseball seasons, still alive in the Division II tournament. This seems like a good time to roll out the school's all-time greatest lineup card.