You may also want to look at "Les Canadiens" by Rick Salutin.  

Also Deb Margolin's Three Seconds in the Key: basketball.
  Tomson Highway's Dry Lips Oughta move to Kapuskasing about 7 Native American men and (among other things) hockey.

How She Played the Game by Cynthia Cooper, a short play about Eleonora Randolph Sears, Althea Gibson, Gertrude Ederle, Sonie Hennie, Gretel Bergmann, and Babe Didrickson

George a Greene, The Pinner of Wakefield (1593) turns around several bouts of staff-fighting that function as sport, a feature of numerous late medieval and early modern Robin Hood parish plays as well. I discuss the social contexts for and performance implications of these forms of athletic combat in the second section of an article I wrote a few years ago: Erika T. Lin, "Popular Festivity and the Early Modern Stage: The Case of George a Greene," Theatre Journal 61 (2009): 271-97.

Baseball:

Ernie by Mitch Albom

Fences by August Wilson  

Rounding Third by Richard Dresser

Bang the Drum Slowly, adapted by Eric Simonson (someone mentioned a monologue, but there is a complete stage version by Simonson, who also wrote Lombardi and is currently working on Magic/Bird)

Honus and Me by Steven Dietz (adaptation of Dan Gutman's novel)

Boxing:

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Blade to the Heat by Oliver Mayer

Joe Louis Blues by Oliver Mayer

The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard

The Champion by Robert Gurik (translated by Allan Van Meer)

Football:

Wonderful Town by Comden and Green

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Hockey:

Five Flights by Adam Bock

Horse racing:

Pure Confidence by Carlyle Brown

Tennis:

Ball Boys by David Edgar

Golf:

Yodellers by Michael Healey and Kate Lynch

One Under by Israel Horovitz

Let the Big Dog Eat by Elizabeth Wong

Wrestling:

Cementville by Jane Martin

In Brazil: Chapetuba Futebol Clube, by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha). I

do not know if an English translation exists.

Sports in United States is one thing and sports in Argentina and Brazil is another. For example, a known

argentinian writer and director Ricardo Bartis had dealt with Sports, politics and theatre in a trilogy of

plays. El box is the latest one. He is writing one on football now. I am sure there are many cases in Brazil also.

  And Tom Stoppard's <Professional Foul> (soccer & ethics),

Spin Moves and The Catch by Ken Weitzman
Back Back Back by Itamar Moses

How about Blade to the Heat (Apple Tree got a Jeff for that):
 
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C04E7D9143EF937A35752C1A962958260

I saw a show once at Circle in the Square called “Diamonds” about Baseball.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_%28musical%29

Here’s four more:
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/smash-hits-plays-about-sport-850319.html

a couple more and a discussion of this idea:
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/apr/22/theatre-sport-human-drama

and some more, in an article that Google found on the Green Page:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/theater/28bison.html?_r=2&ref=theater

and that’s just the first page of results on Google to “plays about sports”
 
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/smash-hits-plays-about-sport-850319.html

Also Trafford Tanzi - Claire Luckham (wrestling)

Babe Ruth called The Babe that starred Max Gail (of Barney Miller fame) on Broadway in the mid-1980s.

I know this isn't a play, but there's a monologue from Bang the Drum Slowly that's pretty popular as an audition piece.

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz

To You, The Birdie (Phèdre) by The Wooster Group [badminton]

"Summer Runners" by Makino Nozomi. Baseball during the post-WWII black market .
"Tokyo Atomic Klub" also by Makino. Baseball as a metaphor for the Japanese attempt to build an atomic bomb during WWII.
"A Legend of Mermaids" by Chong Wishin(g). Boxing. A Korean migrant family struggles to make a living in Japan.
The last two are translated in the series "Half Century of Japanese Theater"

Boxing 2000 by Richard Maxwell

Charles T. Vincent, "A Naval Cadet" starred Gentleman Jim Corbett (the reigning heavyweight boxing champion) and includes a gymnasium scene in which he demonstrates bag punching (while the actress Annie Blake swings from a set of rings in full evening dress...)
 
 Dermot Bolger, In High Germany (World Cup football)
 
 Shaun Dunne's very recent "I am a Home Bird (It’s very hard)" has a fantasy scene of the Irish 2002 World Cup team celebrating

Beautiful Burnout - created by Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland (played St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last year)

All American - a new play by Julia Brownell, currently up at Lincoln Center Theatre's LCT3 

Of course, The Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler. And Clifford Odets' Golden Boy.

Bring it On! The Musical [competitve cheerleading] 

Oh, and Israel Horowitz, The One on One Basketball GameFramji

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball - Rebecca Gilman

And if you stretched the definition about how sports is used, perhaps Beautiful Thing - Jonathan Harvey

he Fool by Edward Bond (uses boxing as a metaphor)As You Like It (the wrestling match)The first production of Brecht's The Measure's Taken was set in a boxing ring.And of course Brecht's short essay, "Emphasis on Sport"Framji

There are some scenes here and there, such as the long (and fictitious) speech in Sophocles’ ELECTRA about a chariot race. Aeschylus had a play, now lost, called ATALANTA, presumably about the mythical woman who would only marry a man who could defeat her in a footrace.
 
We can, though, add an adaptation, the soon-to-open on Broadway:
LYSISTRATA JONES, by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn – basketball
 
I’ll also throw in:
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME, by Ben Elton and Andrew Lloyd Webber – soccer

Lee Blessing, Oldtimers Game -- set in the locker room of a minor league baseball team 

Tom Lysaght, Nobody Don't Like Yogi -- set in the Yankee clubhouse on the day in 1999 when Yogi returned to Yankee Stadium. Yogi, alone, remembers. 

Also add Bleacher Bums, about the Cubs.

There is also a baseball scene with song in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown.

And last year the ART did an original musical about the Red Sox. It was originally called Red Sox Nation but then the title was changed to, I believe, Johnny Baseball.

Stuart

A Night in November (Marie Jones) - the World Cup and "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland That Championship Season -- Jason Miller. Reunion of high school basketball team and their coach. 1972.


 

That Championship Season -- Jason Miller. Reunion of high school basketball team and their coach. 1972.
On Nov 6, 2011, at 9:07 AM, "Michael Chemers" <chemers@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> wrote:

Theatre/Sports My dear colleagues,


“An article appeared this week on the Greenpage about “Magic/Bird” about the two famous basketballers and their relationship.  The comments on the article were very much “what a clever idea to do a play about sports.” And the one or two people that knew this wasn’t a new thing all cited “Lombardi” as if the first play about sports was written last year.”

One of my colleagues here at Carnegie Mellon sent me the message above and suggested a course on sports-related plays might be interesting, and I thought it would be an amusing holiday diversion for the ASTR list, if we defined “sports” as broadly as possible to include any kind of performance of athletic or martial skills as a central focus of the plot, but not including plays that merely make references to a sport. Here’s my list so far – I’d be happy to see anyone else’s ideas, especially from the more ancient periods:

THE CHIEF (Rob Zellers) - about the life of former Steelers owner Art Rooney Sr.
BROWNS RULES (Eric Schmiel/Bill Hoffman) - a musical comedy about the Cleveland football team
DAMN YANKEES (Abbot/Wallop/Adler/Ross) - baseball
FENCES (August Wilson) - baseball
SUCKER PUNCH (Roy Williams) - boxing
SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS (Roy Williams) - British football
THE CHANGING ROOM (David Storey) - rugby
UP N’ UNDER (Jon Godber) - rugby
RED REMEMBERS (Andrew Guerdat) - about the life of Red Barber, announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers
TAKE ME OUT (Richard Greenberg) - baseball
RUNT OF THE LITTER (Bo Eason) - autobiographical account by the former Houston Oilers safety

Thanks!

-Michael

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