Possible Clues:

• Climactic inning, often
• Beethoven's choral symphony
• Closing time at the park?
• Third of a third
• Round in which Rocky Marciano stopped Don Cockell
• The hole that's only half round, of course
• Beethoven's symphony with 'Ode to Joy'
• Standing after eigth
• Piece of Beethoven in the Choral
• It becomes Columbus north of 59th Street