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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 9, Round 4 - Sports Literature - Sports Books
> 1. "The Game" by Ken Dryden (1983).
American football
> 2. "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton (1970).
baseball
> 3. "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby (1991).
baseball
> 4. "Paper Lion" by George Plimpton (1966).
American football
> 5. "The Natural" by Bernard Malamud (1952).
baseball
> 6. "The Sweet Science" by A.J. Liebling (1956).
boxing
> 7. "Bang the Drum Slowly" by Mark Harris (1956).
baseball
> 8. "Friday Night Lights" by H.G. Bissinger (1990).
American football
> 9. "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean (1976).
fishing
> 10. "Instant Replay" by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schapp (1968).
American football
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Canadiana History - Canadian Military
> 2. Please decode the rot13 for this question only after you have
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> Gb ubabe gurz va 1925, Jvaavcrt punatrq gur anzr bs Cvar Fg.
> gb jung?
Victoria St.
> 4. What was Canadian flying ace Roy Brown credited with doing
> on 1918-04-21?
shooting down the Red Baron
> 5. This World War I Canadian ace from Owen Sound won a Victoria
> Cross and was officially credited with shooting down 72 enemy
> planes. He has *two* Ontario airports named for him.
Bishop
> 6. With 12 awards for valor, this Manitoba-born World War I
> airman is the most decorated serviceman in Canadian history.
> He was officially credited with downing 33 planes. His 1930
> funeral was the largest national state event in Toronto's
> history.
Bishop
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