| TEAMGAME | Pastime such as baseball, but not ping-pong |
| SPHERE | Baseball, but not football |
| ORBS | Baseballs, but not footballs |
| GAME | Pastime such as cards, Scrabble or tiddlywinks; a flock of swans kept for pleasure; or, deer, pheasants or other wild animals as food (4) |
| BOARDGAME | A pastime such as chess, backgammon or Monopoly (5,4) |
| HOBBYIST | Pursuer of a pastime such as collecting, cookery or craft (8) |
| HANDYCRAFT | General name for a pastime such as embroidery, knitting, quilting, pottery, beading or card-making (10) |
| CARDGAME | General name for a pastime such as bridge, canasta, snap or whist (4,4) |
| HOBBY | Derived from a word for a small horse, general term for a recreational pastime such as baking, calligraphy, cruciverbalism, DIY or scrapbooking (5) |
| ACTIVITY | Word for busy, energetic or lively movement; a training exercise; or, a recreational pursuit or pastime, such as a game or sport (8) |
| PIE | "As American as baseball or apple ___" (3) |
| RUN | Something good in baseball, but bad in banking |
| OPERA | "___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H.L. Mencken |
| BUDSELIG | Fay Vincent's successor as baseball commissioner |
| FORDFRICK | President as baseball commissioner |
| CATCHER | Provide small child to fill in as baseball player (7) |
| SELIG | Bud who served as baseball commissioner for 22 years |
| BABE | The ?, 1992 biopic starring John Goodman as baseball star George Herman Ruth |
| TRADE | Swap, as baseball cards |
| SANDIEGO | US city which has the Padres in Major League Baseball, but no NBA or NFL team (3.5) |
