The baseball season is over, but a scoreless tie continues between Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and former Baltimore Orioles Owner Jerold Hoffberger. To start the second World Series game between the Birds and the Pittsburgh Pirates, Hoffberger invited Maryland Governor Harry Hughes, an old friend, to throw out the first ball. Kuhn, standing next to the Governor at the toss, was smiling, but his grin was deceptive. Hoffberger's choice violated a rule that all first-ball throwers must be approved by the commissioner, with politicians and movie stars acceptable only in rare circumstances. For disobeying the rule, Hoffberger, who last season sold his team to Washington Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, was fined $2,500 by Kuhn. Hoffberger has protested the fine and requested a hearing; Kuhn is considering the appeal. The standoff could continue into next season.

In his films, dashing French Movie Star Jean-Paul Belmondo customarily wins the girl. This time, however, the 46-year-old actor lost her to a younger man, and after she vanished had to console himself by dancing le jerk with someone else. The girl was dark-eyed Daughter Florence, 20, whom Belmondo gave away in traditional style as the beaming father of the bride. Florence's husband is American Public Relations Man Larry-Neal Andrews, 30. The couple will settle in Seattle, not one of Papa Jean-Paul's watering holes.

She was 22, had a voluptuous 35-23-34 figure and loved to laugh, according to the model release and fact sheet. What the aspiring actress wanted more than anything, in addition to exposure in Playboy, was to do comedy. Ten years after posing in the altogether, Suzanne Somers has achieved both goals. In its February issue, Playboy publishes those test pictures of the Three's Company TV comedienne that had been filed and forgotten by everyone, including Somers. In a TV interview with Barbara Walters, she admitted that yes, she had tried out for Playmate, but when it came to posing nude, she had got cold feet. Alas, the naked truth will out.

A run for the presidency was on General Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s mind last June when he relinquished his NATO command and retired from the Army. But the onetime chief of staff of the Nixon White House soon discovered that he had no constituency to return him to Pennsylvania Avenue on his own. Last week Haig, 55, settled for a leadership role of a different sort: president and chief operating officer of United Technologies Corp., a Connecticut-based company that manufactures everything from air conditioners and escalators to jet engines and helicopters. He will earn roughly twice the $200,000 a year he would have made as President.

Cliff Finch, 52, outgoing Mississippi Governor, announcing his presidential candidacy: "I waited in the wings hoping that some candidate of either party would answer the country's cries in the wilderness. But no one has. So it's up to me."

Frank Pewarski, New York City policeman, after climbing the 65-ft. Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to bring down a high-striding drunk: "This has to be the most unusual thing I ever had to do. But some of the branches were wired on. What kind of Christmas tree is that?"

Rosalynn Carter, on her Christmas calculator from Husband Jimmy: "It was a complete surprise. I haven't used one since the peanut warehouse."

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