List of films based on sports books

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A list of sports films that are based on books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a tv series (or tv film), then the tv series is included.

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Contents

[edit] American football

College and professional

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Navy Blue and Gold 1937 Sam Wood USA Navy Blue and Gold George Bruce 1937 Novel - - -
2 Paper Lion 1968 Alex March USA Paper Lion George Plimpton 1967 Nonfiction - - -
3 Brian's Song 1971 Buzz Kulik USA I Am Third Gale Sayers & Al Silverman 1970 Autobiography Brian's Song 2001 USA
4 Semi-Tough 1977 Michael Ritchie USA Semi-Tough Dan Jenkins 1969? Novel - - -
5 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff USA North Dallas Forty Peter Gent 1973 Novel - - -
6 Fighting Back 1980 Robert Lieberman USA Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier Rocky Bleier 1975 Autobiography - - -
7 Everybody's All-American 1988 Taylor Hackford USA Everybody's All-American Frank Deford 1981 Novel - - -
8 Monday Night Mayhem 2002 Ernest R. Dickerson USA Monday Night Mayhem: The Inside Story of ABC's Monday Night Football Bill Carter & Marc Gunther 1988 Nonfiction - - -
9 Friday Night Lights 2004 Peter Berg USA Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream H. G. Bissinger 1990 Nonfiction - - -

[edit] Baseball

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Death on the Diamond 1934 Edward Sedgwick USA Death on the Diamond: A Baseball Mystery Story Cortland Fitzsimmons 1934 Novel - - -
2 The Babe Ruth Story 1948 Roy Del Ruth USA The Babe Ruth Story Bob Considine & Babe Ruth 1948 Autobiography - - -
3 Fear Strikes Out 1957 Robert Mulligan USA Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story Jimmy Piersall & Albert S. Hirshberg 1955 Autobiography - - -
4 Damn Yankees! 1958 George Abbott & Stanley Donen USA The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant Douglass Wallop 1954 Novel - - -
5 It's Good to Be Alive 1974 Michael Landon USA It's Good to Be Alive Roy Campanella 1960 Autobiography - - -
6 Ball Four 1976 Nick Havinga & Peter Lewis & Jay Sandrich USA Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues Jim Bouton 1969 Autobiography - - -
7 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson USA The Natural Bernard Malamud 1952 Novel - - -
8 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles USA 8 Men Out Eliot Asinof 1963 Nonfiction - - -
9 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson USA Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella 1982 Novel - - -
10 The Fan 1996 Tony Scott USA The Fan Peter Abrahams 1995 Novel - - -
11 For Love of the Game 1999 Sam Raimi USA For Love of the Game Michael Shaara 1991 Novel - - -
12 Fever Pitch 2005 Farrelly Brothers USA Fever Pitch* Nick Hornby 1992 Novel - - -

[edit] Basketball

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Glory Road 2006 James Gartner USA Glory Road Don Haskins 2005 Autobiography - - -

[edit] Boxing

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Champion 1949 Mark Robson USA Champion Ring Lardner ? Short Story - - -
2 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese USA Raging Bull: My Story Jake LaMotta & Joseph Carter 1970 Autobiography - - -
3 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison USA book 1: The 16th Round & book 2: Lazarus and the Hurricane 1. Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter 2. Sam Chaiton & Terry Swinton ? Nonfiction - - -
4 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood USA Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner F.X. Toole ? Collection of Short Stories - - -

[edit] Football (soccer)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 1940 Thorold Dickinson UK The Arsenal Stadium Mystery Leonard Reginald Gribble ? Novel - - -
2 Fever Pitch 1997 David Evans UK Fever Pitch Nick Hornby 1992 Novel - - -

[edit] Golf

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Legend of Bagger Vance 2000 Robert Redford USA The Legend of Bagger Vance Steven Pressfield 1995 Novel - - -
2 The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005 Bill Paxton USA The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf Mark Frost 2002 Nonfiction - - -

[edit] Horse racing

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 Let It Ride 1989 Joe Pytka USA Good Vibes Jay Cronley ? Novel - - -
2 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross USA Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand 2001 Nonfiction - - -

[edit] See also

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