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<P>This book 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 <Q>Battle of the Sexes</Q> 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.</P>

Sports on Film

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: SPORTS ON FILM

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Recent Titles in Hollywood History.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Series Foreword.
Preface.
Introduction.
Chronology.
1: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950).
2: The Basketball Fix (1951).
3: Paper Lion (1968).
4: Junior Bonner (1972).
5: A League of Their Own (1992).
6: Ali (2001).
7: Seabiscuit (2003).
8: Miracle (2004).
9: Battle of the Sexes (2017).
10: Ford v Ferrari (2019).
Bibliography.
Index.
About the Author.

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