Sports movies are a dime a dozen. There are great ones, like The Natural or Raging Bull, indifferent ones, like My All American, and truly dreadful and ponderous ones, like The Legend of Bagger Vance. Audiences are content with the sports movie. We understand their basic ethos, their cookie cutter plots and find comfort in their sweeping tales of morality, togetherness and hope.
Sports and literature, however, have always had an uneasy relationship. Most great novels that include athletics are not really about athletics. Books like Infinite Je...
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