Possible Clues:

• Sort of fixture needing right linesman
• "Walk-off" game-ender
• Slugger's big shot
• Award collected by the female poet
• Devil of a poet's on for the yellow fellow
• 'Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)' artist, 1876
• Over-the-Monster shot
• Ball hit over the wall
• Who wrote 'By their own follies they perished, the fools'
• Trained pigeon