| One recognized at mid-season, often | 35 |
| Midsummer Classic participant | 29 |
| Midseason honoree | 17 |
| Like some casts | 15 |
| Like many casts, in movie advertisements | 40 |
| Like J.J. Hardy or Yadier Molina | 32 |
| Like a cast with an expensive budget | 36 |
| Like a blockbuster's cast, often | 36 |
| League leader | 13 |
| July game | 9 |
| Future Hall-of-Famer | 20 |
| Featuring top players | 21 |
| Dream-team pick | 15 |
| Dream team pick | 15 |
| Dream team member | 17 |
| Ballplayer in a midsummer exhibition game | 41 |
| Annual baseball break | 21 |
| Among the elite | 15 |
| Adjective for a mid-season game | 31 |
| "Clear skies tonight," to an astronomer? | 50 |
| Dream team | 10 |
| Top players | 11 |
| Baseball V.I.P.'s | 21 |
| Elite athletes | 14 |
| Superior athletes | 17 |
| Some athletes | 13 |
| Premier players | 15 |
| Players in a July contest | 25 |
| Leagues' best | 17 |
| They sparkle on diamonds | 24 |
| Players voted in by the fans | 28 |
| Players in an annual game | 25 |
| Participants in a July game | 27 |
| Midsummer Classic players | 25 |
| Midseason honorees | 18 |
| Like six White Sox, in 2006 | 27 |
| League elite | 12 |
| July opponents | 14 |
| Honored athletes | 16 |
| Cream of the sports crop | 24 |
| Best of the best, sportswise | 28 |
| Athletic elite | 14 |
| Athletes' athletes | 22 |
| "Proceed!" | 20 |
| NASA worker's enthusiastic cry? | 35 |
| Prepared statement? | 19 |
| Prelaunch words | 15 |
| Launch words | 12 |
| Really hot | 10 |
| Super-popular | 13 |
| Chic, and then some | 19 |
| So hot right now | 16 |
| Sinatra classic | 15 |
| How a player could go, as an emphatic announcer might say | 57 |
| Whole-hog | 9 |
| Hit song of 1957 (Academy Award) | 32 |
| F.A.S. hit: 1957 | 16 |
| Cahn–Van Heusen Oscar winner: 1957 | 41 |
| Record | 6 |
| Ever | 4 |
| Past and present | 16 |
| Unsurpassed | 11 |
| Like some records | 17 |
| Unsurpassed, as in sports | 25 |
| Never surpassed | 15 |
| Like the most impressive records | 32 |
| Better than any other | 21 |
| Words for an athletic record | 28 |
| Word used with some sports records | 34 |
| Word used with greats | 21 |
| Unsurpassed up to the present | 29 |
| Type of record | 14 |
| Record-owning | 13 |
| Not just recent | 15 |
| Never-surpassed | 15 |
| Never surpassed, as a sports record | 35 |
| Like the highest high | 21 |
| Like some sports records | 24 |
| Category for a sports great | 27 |
| Best yet | 8 |
| Adjective for the best, in sports | 33 |
| ___ the good | 12 |
| Words with ''pieces'' or ''the good'' | 69 |
| Words before pieces or the good | 31 |
| For --- see (in plain view) | 27 |
| For -- see (in plain view) | 26 |
| For ___ see (in plain view) | 27 |
| "I owe it __ clean living" | 36 |
| _____ the good (beneficial) | 27 |
| ____ the good | 13 |
| ___ the good: so much the better | 32 |
| __ the good | 11 |
| Counting everything | 19 |
| In sum | 6 |
| With everything | 15 |
| Everything counted | 18 |
| After everything's been said and done | 41 |
| Intimate | 8 |
| Refer to | 8 |
| Refer | 5 |