Baseball
Across
- 2. A hard line drive hit by a batter.
- 3. A team's best starting pitcher.
- 4. May have been baseball's greatest player, if not the game's fiercest competitor.His batting accomplishments are legendary
- 5. A smart, scrappy and determined second baseman and the pivot man in the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield.
- 6. A key performer for the Yankees on eight American League pennant-winners and seven World Series champions.
- 8. The Say Hey Kid, played with enthusiasm and exuberance while excelling in all phases of the game.
- 9. One of baseball's great gamers. As Rookie of the Year in 1956 and an MVP in both leagues.
- 12. The section of the outfield between the outfielders.
- 13. Home plate.
- 14. A base.
- 16. A team's bench area.
- 18. One of the finest African-American players in the years preceding integration.
- 19. Pitcher's mound.
- 21. Curve ball.
- 22. A home run.
Down
- 1. An easy pitch to hit, usually right down the middle of the plate.
- 5. He broke baseball's color barrier and bringing the Negro leagues' electrifying style of play to the Majors.
- 6. An amateur play or behavior.
- 7. A strikeout.
- 10. His blazing fastball set the standard against which all of his successors have been judged.
- 11. American original, baseball's first great slugger and the most celebrated athlete of his time.
- 15. The big-game pitcher on the great Yankees teams of the 1950s and early '60s, earning him the moniker The Chairman of the Board.
- 17. A home run.
- 20. When a hitter gets a pitch near his hands.