Sports Cinema: 100 Movies

Sports Cinema - 100 Movies. (The Best of Hollywoods Athletic Heroes, Losers, Myths, and Misfits). Limelight. Softcover. 448 pages. Published by Limelight Editions.

From All the Right Moves to Olympia * from Caddyshack to Rocky....Sports Cinema is an in-depth companion guide celebrating movies centered on sports-oriented stories, characters, events, or backdrops, complete with more than 400 black-and-white movie stills. Beginning with The Freshman (1925), Mr. Williams counts down his top movie picks from more than nine decades, based upon hundreds of hours of film watching and his expertise as a lifelong sports fan and sports writer for national and international publications, including Sports Illustrated * The Hollywood Reporter * Olympic Review * Reuters and the Washington Post.

Enhancing his chapter-by-chapter explorations of each film are sports-themed sections, including