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.
One of the early amateur teams playing in New York, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, adopts rules for the game.
King Oinomaos challenges all his daughter's suitors to a life-or-death chariot race. He loses to Pelops who organizes commemorative games in Olympia.
Frozen in ice, George Mallory's newly discovered body remains preserved 75 years after his death.
Seabiscuit beats a younger horse, the reigning Triple-Crown winner, War Admiral, in the Pimlico Special of 1938.
For Morris the reality of pro baseball is very hard with little playing time and little pay.
Seabiscuit and his owner both die of heart problems; Seabiscuit's grave is by an unmarked oak tree at his ranch in California.
Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that permits the use ofmilitary force in Southeast Asia without a formaldeclaration of war.
In 1934, Charles Howard hires Tom Smith as a trainer to help him break into horse racing; Tom tells him to buy Seabiscuit.
Similar to Arjuna, Rannulph Junah does not believe he can be a champion.
After recovering from his arm injuries, the Chicago White Sox recruit Morris in the fall of 1988.
Due to sharp peaks, steep inclines, unsafe crevasses, and avalanches, K2 is not the setting for Vertical Limit.
Walter "The Haig" Hagen is one of the greatest golfers during the Great Depression.
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