(LEO) DUROCHER, NICE GUYS FINISH LAST — Managing... is the most vulnerable job in the world. ... If you don't win, you're... fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired. ... The manager... has to call it... now. Everybody else can call it after it's over.
| A. | Rock forming Gettysburg's Devil's Den | DIABASE |
| B. | Move like "the wave" | UNDULATE |
| C. | L. Frank Baum's Tik-Tok, for one | ROBOT |
| D. | Step on some toes | OFFEND |
| E. | Teammate of Dizzy Dean or Ozzie Smith | CARDINAL |
| F. | Try to wow a spectating crowd | HOTDOG |
| G. | Word made from parts meaning "true" and "word" | ETYMOLOGY |
| H. | Fan giving vocal support | ROOTER |
| I. | City where the first telephone directory was issued (1878) (2 wds.) | NEWHAVEN |
| J. | One cause for a substitution | INJURY |
| K. | Trickster of Navajo myth | COYOTE |
| L. | Tommy John surgery site | ELBOW |
| M. | Convention, crowd, assembly | GATHERING |
| N. | Apt to fall for a fast one | UNWARY |
| O. | Pitching legend for whom a yearly pitching award is named | YOUNG |
| P. | Pivot, pirouette | SWIVEL |
| Q. | Thurman Munson's retired uniform number | FIFTEEN |
| R. | Like the walls of Wrigley Field | IVIED |
| S. | Dancing defector of 1961 | NUREYEV |
| T. | Over-the-top fandom | IDOLATRY |
| U. | First name in women's Grand Slam history | STEFFI |
| V. | Diamond dinger (2 wds.) | HOMERUN |
| W. | Grove of Cooperstown | LEFTY |
| X. | Poise when in a pickle | APLOMB |
| Y. | National anthem singer, usually | SOLOIST |
| Z. | Slow-paced exercise routine (2 wds.) | TAICHI |