| 100% | OTT | 3 | The "O" in Ogden Nash's alphabet of baseball players |
| 45% | MELOTT | 6 | Former Giants player in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 45% | RODRIGUEZ | 9 | Yankees player Alex, who was involved in Baseball's first instant replay review, on the day of Halloween |
| 44% | JOE | 3 | ___ DiMaggio, former professional baseball player who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 |
| 44% | RIVERA | 6 | Mariano ___, former Panamian-American baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019 |
| 44% | BABE | 4 | ___ Ruth, former professional baseball player who was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 |
| 43% | CAMEL | 5 | Humped desert animal in Ogden Nash's titular poem that pokes fun of its anatomy |
| 43% | ROSE | 4 | Pete ___, former baseball player who is the all-time MLB leader in hits and number of games played |
| 43% | BRETT | 5 | Baseball's 1980 Player of the Year |
| 42% | TAXDODGERS | 10 | California baseball players in trouble with the I.R.S.? |
| 42% | ERNIE | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and died 1/23/15 |
| 42% | CAR | 3 | Player's token in the Game of Life |
| 42% | ICHIRO | 6 | With 41-Across, Japanese baseball player who was named both AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP in 2001 |
| 41% | NINE | 4 | Number of baseball players in a lineup |
| 41% | PITCHER | 7 | Baseball player in the jug |
| 41% | BABERUTH | 8 | Player's autograph on baseball in The Sandlot |
| 40% | ZEE | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in the U.S. |
| 40% | YOGI | 4 | Berra who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 40% | ICHIRO | 6 | Suzuki who will be the first Japanese player in the Baseball Hall of Fame when inducted this July |
| 40% | OBOE | 4 | O in the old Army phonetic alphabet |
| 40% | HUG | 3 | Each of the O's in XOXO |
| 40% | ONLY | 4 | One of the O's in "YOLO" |
| 40% | OSCAR | 5 | O, in the Nato alphabet |
| 40% | STU | 3 | Man's nickname found in consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 40% | YEAH | 4 | Word repeated in the name of Karen O's band |
| 40% | OWNER | 5 | One of the o's in "o/o" |
| 39% | GOOD | 4 | Batter's command of the strike zone, in baseball lingo |
| 39% | FIELDER | 7 | Baseball player in the side that is not batting |
| 39% | NATS | 4 | Rival of the O's in the Beltway Series |
| 39% | OUR | 3 | The "O" of S O S, apocryphally |