Since the inception of cinema, there have been hundreds of films that have used sports as a vessel for their narrative drama. From silent-comedies like Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, to dramatic biopics like Raging Bull, filmmakers have reveled in giving their audience a taste of a world that most of us have only ever dreamt of being a part of. The Replay - Sports on the Big Screen details the making of these great films.

In the first episode of “The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen”, we take you back to 1943, to the dawn of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Through first-hand anecdotes told by two of the players that were there, plus the films screenwriters, we look how accurately the film portrayed the AAGPBL and the women who made it great.

High School basketball is like a religion to those in Indiana. This is why the story of the small-town Milan High School basketball team winning the State Championship in 1954 inspired Indiana Native Angelo Pizzo to write the screenplay for “Hoosiers”. In this episode of "The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen", we touch on the creation of the script, and hear from former Milan High School star Bobby Plump on what it was like to play on that team almost 70 years ago.