Fun to watch and fun to play, sporting activities have always had a key role in public life. These sports-related stories take us back to the ancient Olympics and forward to the days of a "Moneyball" approach to baseball.
Read quotes about baseball from famous authors such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf.
Pienaar serves as captain of the Springboks during the 1995 World Rugby Cup and works with Mandela to create national support for the team.
George Woolf rides Seabiscuit to victories after Red Pollard is injured.
In 1971, T. C. Williams High School's star player, Gerry Bertier, has a car wreck that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down.
T. C. Williams High School hires a black head coach, Herman Boone, to lead the school's desegregated football team.
The Great Depression begins after the 1929 stock market crash and is the worst economic disaster in American history.
Constant snowcover on K2 masks openings to ice caves and crevasses.
As a pitcher, arm injuries put Morris out of pro baseball.
Jackie Robinson grows up in California where, after youthful troubles, he becomes an expert athlete in football, basketball, baseball and track.
During World War II there is a policy of racial discrimination in the military, but Lt. Jack Robinson decides to challenge that policy.
Jackie Robinson refuses to leave his seat on a bus and subsequently faces a court martial.
Braddock gives up boxing to work as alongshoreman to help his family during the Great Depression.
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