MLB PUTS SOME INCENTIVE BEHIND THE GIFT OF CARD GIVING

          Every MLB team has placed "buckets" of trading cards in
     dugouts during spring training, according to Bill Lankhof of
     the TORONTO SUN.  An MLB advisory reads: "If fans see their
     heroes reading cards and giving away free packs this will
     help to make baseball cards cool again."  The advisory adds
     that MLB players should hand out the cards themselves, "As
     you know baseball cards are the players' association's
     largest revenue generator."  Lankhof: "Somehow, it always
     comes down to one thing ... money" (TORONTO SUN, 3/13).