Sports on Film

<b><i>Sports on Film</i> 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.</b><br/><br/><i>Sports on Film</i> 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.