Sports Books You May Know
Roger Kahn's 1972 bestseller "The Boys of Summer" is a nostalgic look at this team before it left New York for Los Angeles
The Dodgers
Gross, I became one of these on the wall while listening in on a secret conversation
Fly
On your drum kit, this is the pair of cymbals with a pedal
Hi-Hat
To wrap a wound
Bandage
Kevin Costner was going to play the president in "Air Force One" but had to leave the film, so the role went to this star
Harrison Ford
A Volkswagen hatchback: a sport you can literally take a whack at
Golf
The basis for a football movie & TV series, this bestseller is subtitled "A Town, a Team, and a Dream"
Friday Night Lights
It would be real freaky if I literally became all these while listening intently for an answer
Ears
You might know it as a line dance, but it's also a barrel shaped drum
Conga
To play a practice game against members of your own team
Scrimmage
In 1982 she co-founded her center to treat drug addiction & chaired the board until 2005
Betty Ford
A Chevy SUV:
it can be vernal or autumnal
Equinox
"Levels of the Game" is John McPhee's book about one 1968 tennis match between Clark Graebner & Arthur Ashe, the first African American champion in this sport
Tennis
I don't know if bugs technically have knees, but we say this one does
Bees
On your standard drum kit, your snare drum has the snare. The ones lines up to its side without the snare are these drums
Tom-toms (Tom drum)
To roam in search of food
Forage
Robert Ford met with Missouri's governor to plan the 1882 murder of this outlaw & the gov gave Bob a quick pardon for it
Jesse James
A Dodge: someone who's coming for the champion
Challenger
This book about the Oakland A's using sabermetrics to compete at the highest level in MLB later became a Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill film
Moneyball
Both in the idiom and in real life, it would be unpleasant and painful to bite one of these
"Get It On, Bang" this, sang the band T. Rex in 1971
Gong
To pledge property as collateral for a loan
Mortgage
Mayor Rob Ford in 2013: "I don't want to toot my own horn... but I'm the best mayor this city has ever had"
Toronto
A Toyota truck:
a level, treeless Arctic plain
Tundra
'Secretariat' tells the story of the first horse to win this prize in almost 30 years
The Triple Crown
Grandpa died? I'm sure he's pushing these flowers
Daises
A staple of the orchestra is this big drum, a big copper bowl with a foot pedal
Timpani
Plant leaves, collectively.
Foliage
Just 4 weeks into being president, Gerald Ford announced a “full, free, and absolute pardon” to this predecessor
Richard Nixon
A Hyundai: New Mexico edition
Santa Fe