Baseball Preview

FROM THE GROUND UP

The Nationals set out to build a model franchise, piece by piece

• New manager
• New ownership
• The star
• Player development
• New stadium
• Television deal

NATIONALS ’07

• Q&A: Better days (far) ahead (Mark Zuckerman)
• Future isn’t now, and present looks grim (Thom Loverro)
• How bad can a season get? Ask Pongo Joe (Dick Heller)
• ROSTER
• KEY DATES

• Baseball cringes as Bonds nears mark (Bob Cohn)
• Birds rising? (Thom Loverro)
• Top 10 stories (Mark Zuckerman)
• Much-traveled Destrade translates well at ESPN (Tim Lemke)
• Prediction corner: Who will win it all?

AROUND THE HORN

• NL EAST
• NL CENTRAL
• NL WEST
• AL EAST
• AL CENTRAL
• AL WEST