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Originally Posted by Critter

1. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
2. boxing
3. Niagra Falls
4. Asparagus and rhubarb
5. Baseball
6. Strawberry
7. The bottle is placed over the bud on the tree
8. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle - I think dweeb should be added
9. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses
10. They were originally from MN
11. Lettuce
12. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings

Thanks, Crit. You saved me the trouble of having to post the answers. You've obviously seen this one before. You don't get 100% though. Minus one mark for spelling "Niagara" wrong. You also missed the answer to #12, which is that if the catcher drops the ball on the third strike and doesn't throw the runner out at first, the runner gets the base. Yea, I suppose "dweeb" would be considered in common usage these days.