I flutter through haunted caverns without feathers, I knock baseballs out of the park in summer weather, and you can close an eyelid and do me without even trying. What Halloween creature am I?
A bat
Plays on three meanings of 'bat': the flying nocturnal mammal, the baseball equipment, and 'batting an eye'.
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