[Solution] For the Love of the Game – 18 October 2021

This puzzle contains the names of twenty-two different sports, each with one of its letters replaced with a baseball. The sports are:

The letters represented by the baseballs, reading left-to-right down the page, spell out the phrase Hitting without swinging. In baseball, hitting the ball without swinging the bat is BUNTING.

As an extra nudge to anybody who was struggling to find the last few sports, the leftover letters in the grid spell out the message “There is exactly one baseball for each sport named for a grand total of twenty-two.”