A baseball player grips me tight to drive a ball out of the park, yet with leather wings and no hands at all, I sleep hanging upside down in a spooky belfry. What am I?
A bat
Wordplay on a wooden baseball bat and the nocturnal flying mammal associated with Halloween.
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