Sports on Film
eBook - ePub

Sports on Film

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sports on Film

About this book

Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the key moments in sports in America. Sports on Film documents key events in American sports history through the films that depict them, starting with the integration of major-league baseball when Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Other significant events and personalities examined include the college basketball point-shaving incident of the 1950s; journalist George Plimpton's attempt to go through the Detroit Lions' NFL training camp in the early 1960s; the originations and popularity of rodeo; the brief run of women's professional baseball during World War II; the underdog racehorse Seabiscuit during the Great Depression; the rise of African American boxer Muhammad Ali; the unique 1970s "Battle of the Sexes" tennis event between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King; and Ford Motor Company's run in the 1960s to take motorsports to Europe's premier event in Le Mans, France.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chronology
  9. 1. The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
  10. 2. The Basketball Fix (1951)
  11. 3. Paper Lion (1968)
  12. 4. Junior Bonner (1972)
  13. 5. A League of Their Own (1992)
  14. 6. Ali (2001)
  15. 7. Seabiscuit (2003)
  16. 8. Miracle (2004)
  17. 9. Battle of the Sexes (2017)
  18. 10. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. About the Author