What do you call a baseball player who also happens to be a blood-drinking nocturnal creature of the night?
A vampire bat
This wordplay combines two completely different uses of the word 'bat.' In sports, a bat is the equipment swung by a player at home plate, while a vampire bat is a creature of legend associated with Halloween monsters. Merging the baseball role with the legendary creature produces the compound pun.
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