51.   Now, if we could only get ourselves worked up over an entirely different kind of trip into the record books.

52.   Of course, this year was it, at least according to the record books.

53.   One month later, Jeff Reboulet, leading off the eighth, singled cleanly to center to prevent Wakefield from entering the record books.

54.   One day after a Rangers pitcher flirted with the record books, Roger Pavlik inked in an entry.

55.   Other indexes are also rewriting the record books.

56.   Seventy victories would secure a spot in the record books, but not another championship, Jordan says.

57.   Sampras refused to admit that his flirtation with the record books is causing him undue stress here.

58.   Sampras would not say that his flirtation with the record books is causing undue stress.

59.   So in the record books he is keeping good company.

60.   Soon to be at nine championships apiece, they deserve to be listed on the same page of the record books.