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In 1973, 29-year-old female tennis pro Billy Jean King takes on retired tennis pro 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in a battle of the sexes match watched by 50 million Americans.

Drafted by the Dodgers and touted as a potential star, Glenn Burke gets off to a flying start when he becomes the only rookie to start in the 1977 World Series. While his adversity is nothing compared to what Jackie Robinson faced when he broke baseball's color barrier, Burke’s decision to come out of the closet hastens his demise. He is surprisingly traded to Oakland in 1978, but gets injured and retires in his second season there. Burke is diagnosed with AIDS in 1994 and dies a year later at age 42.

Betty Robinson sets an unofficial world record in the 100-meter at the age of 16. At the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, running in just her fourth official 100-meter race, Robinson wins gold — the first gold medal awarded to a woman in track and field at the Olympics. In 1931, tragedy strikes when Robinson is involved in a terrible plane crash. It takes her two years to learn to walk again, and, incredibly, she is able to make the U.S. team for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, a young teen joins the Navy and is sent on a secret mission to guard German POWs during which time he teaches the enemy soldiers how to play baseball.

When Vernon Turner is only 11, he comes home to find his mother shooting heroin into her veins in the bathroom of their Brooklyn home. If that isn't hard enough, he also watches as his black mom and white father fight over her drug abuse. Vernon assumes the role of adult for his siblings. Often told he has no chance to make it to the NFL after playing local college ball, he finally finds his place in the sun as a kickoff and punt returner with the Rams, Lions, Buccaneers, and Panthers before playing in Europe until he retires in 1998.

Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of the reawakening of "Room 107," a mysterious room hidden within the depths of Yankee Stadium where some of baseball's greatest heroes would find solace. When the ghost of Lou Gehrig refuses to join the rest of the ghosts at the new stadium, it's up to 14-year old Henry to talk the Iron Horse into making the move.

Centers on an assistant football coach in the 1980s who goes to American Samoa on a fool’s errand to recruit a high school phenom. He discovers a gold mine of talent that the college and pro ranks have mined ever since.

The movie centers on a broken-down, once-great hockey player who gets a chance to finally fill his legendary father's skates by giving his hometown, known as Hockeytown USA, a pseudo rematch of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game against a Russian team of ex-Olympians.

In his final season with the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross becomes the oldest player to hit a home run in a Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.

The story of Malcolm Butler's journey — from running the fryolator at Popeyes to becoming New England Patriots's star cornerback.

The true story is based on the lives of Frank and Isaac Gildea, the only father-son duo to ever play basketball together on a college team.

A group of adolescent boxers and their formerly incarcerated coach in Southeast Washington DC go on the road to defend their national titles.

A group of recent college graduates get in over their heads when they volunteer to coach a youth-league football team.

A superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies and then quickly learn valuable lessons about humility and courage.

Looks at the boxing world of the 1960s and 1970s as seen through the prism of its biggest rivalries and greatest fights.

A baseball player gets injured and has to go back to the minors where the only place he can find lodging is in a senior citizens' home. There, he meets an old baseball guru who helps lead him back.

Centers the life of Jacques “Jock” Boyer, the first American cyclist to race in the Tour de France.

Set in South Africa, Papwa Sewgolum, a caddie at a South African country club, is prevented from playing in his native country in the 1940s because of apartheid. He is "discovered" by a German Graham Wulff while playing a round with Sewgolum caddying. After an argument results in the young caddie playing a better shot than one of the golf party, Wulff takes Sewgolum overseas to play in the British Open. Sewgolum goes on to win the Dutch Open three times during the 1960s.