While the trades flowed from the eight-month battle between the owners and the players over the game's economic system, they were also a sign that baseball is back.

He died after an eight-month battle with cancer, said Marty Taucher, a spokesman for the software maker, which is based in Redmond, Wash.

Desert Partners, which has waged a bitter eight-month battle for control of the nation's largest gypsum maker, conceded it had lost the fight.

After an eight-month battle with cancer, Hall died in 1980.

Cooper died in June 2001 after an eight-month battle with cancer.

He died in April 2011 after an eight-month battle with the disease.

Andy Burnham had an eight-month battle with the fees office after making a single expenses claim for more than £16,500.

B.A.T. could have shortened the costly eight-month battle by improving its offer sooner, they said.

Kearney died on May 5, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona, after an eight-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Marshall died on February 22, 2009, aged 64, after an eight-month battle with colon cancer.