Okay, here's the answers I received.  But I like Mark Wonsil's answer to
#2 the best!


 1. Boxing.

 2. Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about 2 and a half feet each
year because of 
    the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.

 3. Asparagus and rhubarb.

 4. Ten times (not eleven, as most people seem to think, if you do not
believe it, 
    try it with your watch, it is only 10 times).

 5. Baseball.

 6. Strawberry.

 7. The pear grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear
buds when they 
    are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in
place for the
    whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off
at the stems.

 8. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

 9. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question
mark, 
    exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces,
and ellipses.

10. In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis
Lakers, 
    and kept the name when they moved west.

11. Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher
drops third
    strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.

12. Lettuce.

13. If the catcher drops a called third strike, and doesn't throw the
batter out at 
    first base, the runner is safe.

14. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes,
stockings, and so on.

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