Snowed Grass

by George Barany and Charles Flaster

This "mid-week level" puzzle honors several memorable baseball players (pictorial hint to the right), and was released shortly after the conclusion of the 2015 World Series. After completing the puzzle (spoiler), learn more about the puzzle's theme by clicking here (bonus points if you can deconstruct the puzzle's title!).

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. We thank Dan Chall, Charles Deber, Katherine Halpern, Brent Hartzell, Lewis Rothlein, and Alex Vratsanos for beta testing the puzzle, and useful comments.

If you want to tell others about this particular page, refer them to
http://tinyurl.com/snowedpuz

More puzzles here (all), here (sports), and here (tributes).

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