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1 Where Rawlings Official Major League Baseballs (ROMLB) are made
10 The name Best Brewery (of the same city as 67A played most of his games in) adopted in 1889
15 The kind of employee each MLB team needs in order to utilize a substance imported from the Delaware River in New Jersey?
16 Hurricane that limited attendance at a 2011 Marlins game to just 347
17 Apt name for a ballclub formed by the author of Little Birds?
18 What a pitcher’s going to his mouth while on the mound but not in contact with the rubber became in 2010
19 Current and potential transformer acronym
20 Species of flowering plant native to southern Mexico that can actually be fermented to make mezcal
22 St. in which the Naturals, the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, play
23 How a physicist might describe the force of a batter with his weight on his back foot? (abbr)
24 Leo the ___ Durocher, who retired with 2008 victories as a manager
26 What Tony, whose career was derailed by a pitch by Jack Hamilton on 8-18-67, has in his last name?
28 Refrain of a Television song on Marquee Moon: “___ ___ ___ evil”
30 What a sample of the playing field at Camden Yards might be to a forensics expert? (1 wd, 1 abbr)
33 Co. whose slogan was once “Progress is our most important product”
34 Bobby, the only MVP for a World Series losing team (1960)
36 Jim, who, you might tactlessly say, pitched (on 9-4-93) a no-hitter single-handedly
40 Something the Yankees, Angels, and Dodgers don't have
41 How long it takes to turn (by hand!) 88” of 5/10 red cotton thread into 216 single stitches in a single baseball
43 Field of study of many scientists assoc. with 33A
44 Verb some fans might wish to introduce to batters who act near home plate as if they'd never before seen a home run?
45 George Gachot’s 2014 documentary
49 ___ the Man Musial
51 British slang for aristocrat or big hitter
52 ___ Toro, Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican who played 17 seasons in MLB
53 On the field, 6 (abbr)
54 Member of the team that lost the first ever Lone Star Series for the American League pennant in 2023
58 Given his nickname, what Mike Cuellar’s child might be called?
60 Hank Aaron is the leader with 6,856 ___ bases
62 “Un Marlin est-il un animal volant?” “Un ___? ___!”
65 Fluid-filled sac in elbow or shoulder that might become inflamed when a pitcher throws too hard or too long
66 Kind of scientist who might’ve been consulted before the construction of Chase Field in the Arizona desert?
67 Warren, a pitcher who ended his career with 363 wins and 363 hits (35 of which were home runs!)
68 He played in three consecutive World Series for three different teams (1986-88)
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1 The ___ CGM Group: maybe MLB teams use their shipping services?
2 Each ROMLB must weigh between 5.0 and 5.25 ___
3 Entity that might determine prop. taxes owed by the Orioles?
4 So-called ground-rule ___: actually the penalty for using a hat or throwing a glove to stop a batted ball
5 Capital 200 miles SSW from what is now Choctaw Stadium
6 Network of stations listening to the bands and reporting what stations they hear, when and how well (abbr)
7 Near the Miami Hurricanes ball diamond you might see an anthropomorphic white ___ named Sebastian
8 Rogério ___ holds the record for most goals scored by a goalkeeper in the history of football
9 Zeus and Hera’s boy, known for his courage
10 What the cork center of a ROMLB is called
11 Verb in a Queen song that World Series winners might sing?
12 1903, when the World Series ___, with the Boston Americans defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 games to 3
13 What you might call the deadly gel in mousetraps in baseball dugouts?
14 Directory entry abbreviation
21 Co-director of Shrek 2 (with initial)
23 Kind of exercise program touted by Jake Arrieta, Trevor May, and Evan Longoria
25 Roth’s ___ Complaint
26 The ___ on July 2, 2023 that the Orioles would win the AL East were +1100; the Rays, -654
27 Division of Guardians and Royals
29 Identifier for educational books, akin to ISBN
30 Thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle’s shell
31 St. where the Reds play
32 Stat for a pitcher’s inheritance?
35 Froth on the pond?
37 One dish Moe Drabowsky probably relished, given where he was born?
38 In the 8th inning of game 7 of the 1924 Series, Bucky Harris of the Senators, who were trailing 3-1, hit a routine ground ball which hit a pebble and took a bad hop over Giants third baseman Lindstrom, tying the game; in the 12th, Giants catcher Gowdy stepped on his own mask and thus failed to catch a routine foul pop off the bat of Muddy Ruel, who went on to hit a one-out double; The Big Train reached on another error; then McNeely drove another hard grounder straight at Lindstrom, who hoped to turn a double-play to end the inning; again, the ball hit something and bounced into left field, scoring Ruel when Meusel (probably erroneously) thought he had no play and just headed to the dugout with the ball instead of throwing to the plate: was that 8th-inning pebble-bounce an ___ of things to come?
39 ___ “The Freak” Lincecum
42 Sch. in 5D
46 Maggie to her wobbly partner on FBI after he’s tried to rise after getting bashed on the head?
47 Voudrais-tu aller ___ ___ (Would you like to go to a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy that may make you want to boogie?)
48 Cade ___, LSU DH who stroked a home run against the Gators in the 11th inning of game 1 of the finals of the 2023 Men’s College World Series
50 With Ad, 2019 flick in which Brad Pitt starred and directed
54 Wiggins, who batted before Tony Gwynn for the Padres and thus helped them win the NLCS in 1984
55 Most pitchers have ___ the rubber before going into their wind-ups
56 Americo Peter “___” Petrocelli, who played his entire MLB career with the Red Sox (1963-1976)
57 “You can watch the Nats and dem ___ ___ MASN.”
59 Hindu god of wind or a West Indian shrub, Indigofera suffruticosa, which yields indigo
60 TV home of the Atlanta Braves
61 Wood of most MLB bats
63 ___, Inc, auto bodyshop in the town where William Beck Nicholson, MLB home run king of 1944, was born
64 Hyderabad’s 55-acre Garden which houses a memorial to Andhra Pradesh and is close to Hussain Sagar Lake
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