With the Olympics in full swing I thought I’d see if you could tell me what sport the following books feature…(Hint-no sport repeats)
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1. Playing for Pizza by John Grisham – Football
2. Forfeit by Dick Frances – Horse Racing
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein – Car Racing
4. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean – Fly Fishing
5. Gold by Chris Cleave – Track Cycling
6. Full Court Press by Mike Lupica – Basketball
7. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – Bull Fighting
8. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – Baseball
9. The Champion Maker by Kevin Joseph – Track
10. Miracle on the 17th Green by James Patterson – Golf
Stacy's Books 
Only know a few but I’ll have a guess at some lol
1. American Football
2.
3. Car racing
4. hmmm river … Rowing??
5. Cycling
6. Tennis??
7.
8. Baseball??
9.
10. Golf
50 points!
1 Football
2
3 Car racing
4 fly fishing
5 swimming?
6 basketball?
7 bullfighting
8 baseball
9
10 golf
80 points 🙂
Here are my guesses:
1 – football
2 – horse racing (I’m guessing that since Dick Francis wrote it)
3 – auto racing
4 – rowing?
5 – cycling
6 – basketball
7 –
8 – baseball
9 – swimming?
10 – golf
70 points!
1. Football
2. Horse Racing
3. Car Racing
4. Fishing
5. Cycling
6. Basketball
7. Bull Fighting?
8. Baseball
9. ?
10. Golf
90 points!
1. Football
2. Horse Racing
3. Car Racing
4. Fishing
5. Cycling
6. Basketball
7. Bull Fighting?
8. Baseball
9.?
10. Golf
A couple of these books are on my all time favorite read lists!
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1. Football
4. Fishing
6. Basketball
8. Baseball
10. Golf
50 points!!
1. The Hunger Games – archery (yes, I’m making up my own for those I don’t know or can’t even begin to guess)
2. Discovery of Witches – rowing
3. car racing
4. fly fishing
5. soccer
6. basketball
7. big game hunting (is that even a sport?? it’s the only thing that sounded Hemingway-ish)
8. baseball
9. boxing
10. golf
50 points! Hunger Games is a good one – although I think ‘killing’ might have been the real sport! And I still need to read Discovery so I had no idea about the rowing.
I thought for sure I would get none of these – but just guessing on most 🙂
2. Horse-racing
4. Flyfishing
6.Basketball
7.Bullfighting
10. Golf
50 points!!!
Well, let’s see if I might know a few of these:
1. Football
2. Horse racing
3. Running?
4. Fishing
5. Cycling
6. Basketball
7. Bullfighting
8. Baseball
9. ??? Swimming?
10. Golf
80 points!!
Well , as a sports fan I clearly have not done enough reading about sports – these are all pretty much guesses based on titles alone…
1. Poker – is this a sport?
2. Tennis
3. Running
4. Fishing
5. Skating
6. Basketball
7. Bull Fighting – if memory serves
8. Baseball
9. Boxing
10. Golf
6.
50 points!!!!
2. horse racing
4. fishing
6. basketball
8. baseball
9. boxing
10. golf
50 points!!!!!!