Scope Note:

Fictional work concentrating on how an individual athlete or team, through strength, training, agility, and-or tactics, compete in the often corrupt world of sports. Plots usually relate the victory of an underdog or the fall (and sometimes return) of the champion. Usually the world of a single sport is dramatized, such as baseball, basketball, boxing, football, horseracing, bullfighting, or automobile racing. Note: The particular sport emphasized may be traced through subject headings. Film examples: BLOOD AND SAND (with Romance; Adaptation); BODY AND SOUL (1947); BULL DURHAM (with Comedy; Romance); THE CHAMP; DAYS OF THUNDER; FEAR STRIKES OUT; FIELD OF DREAMS (with Fantasy); THE GOLF SPECIALIST (with Comedy); THE HARDER THEY FALL; THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY (with Biographical); PERSONAL BEST; RAGING BULL (with Biographical); ROCKY; THE SET- UP. TV examples: THE BAD NEWS BEARS (with Children's); BALL FOUR; HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS; WHITE SHADOW.

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