Tunis, John Roberts

A father determines to fulfill his dead son's wish to win the Grand National.

A young, idealistic basketball coach taking over a high school team at mid-season tries to turn it into a first-rate team despite opposition to his methods by business and political leaders.

The college career of an athlete whose determination to train and win made him a member of the Olympic team and helped him become the fastest man alive.

An Air force veteran overcomes his physical handicap and resumes playing with the Dodgers.

A rookie second baseman starts to work his way up to the majors, meeting his father, whom he has hated since he deserted his mother for baseball years ago, on the way down from a great pitching career.

A successful basketball coach becomes head of a new division in the city government, the Juvenile Aid Division, where he works with and for the young people, and when corrupt influences force the office to close, he runs for mayor.

When one player from the overconfident team, the previous year's champions, is expelled for gambling and the other four are penalized for breaking training, they angrily quit the basketball varsity and leave the inferior B team defending the school's record.

Entering Harvard, Jim Wellington finds himself in a completely different world from his small hometown and gains poise and a sense of proportion as he faces the difficulties and disappointments of college life.

When two young brothers join the Brooklyn Dodgers, one becomes team manager and is faced with the task of uniting a team rife with dissension and prejudice against the new Jewish rookie catcher.

A family which is moved, with great bitterness on its part, to a new farm to make way for a Tennessee Valley Authority dam, comes to realize the difference the Authority, its conservation ideas, and its cheap electric power can mean to the new farm.

In the first of these two stories, a baseball player learns the meaning of sportsmanship; in the second, a basketball team experiences difficulties after winning the state championship.

Roy Tucker, the Kid from Tomkinsville, joins the rest of his Dodger teammates in a come-from-behind battle for the series title.

A young leaguer learns a lesson in sportsmanship when he observes the underhanded tactics employed in coaching by a retired baseball hero.

Recounts a girl's rise to stardom on the tennis courts, the conflicts brought by her sports career, and her eventual retirement in favor of marriage.

A story about the brutality of war. A German sergeant has made friends of the people in the French village where he is forced to kill six underground hostages. It is not until 1964 when the French and German teams meet in a World Cup soccer game that he is able to face his conscience.

As the newest addition to the Brooklyn Dodgers, young Roy Tucker's pitching helps pull the team out of a slump; but, when a freak accident ends his career as a pitcher, he must try to find another place for himself on the team.