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{{trope}}
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''Take me out in the crowds;''
''Hit me with poison and a car jack,''
''I don't care if I'm stabbed in the back.''
''Let me die, die, die on the home plate,''
''If they don't weep, it's a shame.''
''For it's one, two, three hits, you're dead,''
''At the old ball game.'' }}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In one [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' story, a player is murdered on field during a baseball game. Somewhat unbelievably, the game continues with Cap and Bucky subbing.
* In the ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]: Paranoid'' comic Freddy kills a boy attending a pep rally by causing him to explode in a mess of blood when he nods off.
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* In the film ''[[Ronin]]'', {{spoiler|Gregor}}, while doing a money-for-''[[MacGuffin]]''-type trade, tries to buy security against a double-cross by having an accomplice threaten the figure-skating girlfriend of the Russian mobster he is making the switch with. {{spoiler|The Russian lets her die anyway, kills Gregor, and keeps the case.}}
* Max Zorin and his thugs try to off [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] during a horse race in ''[[A View to a Kill]]''.
* The main plot of ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'' culminates with [[Bruce Willis
** The movie actually starts with a player (portrayed by Billy Blanks) who was high on PCP bringing a gun onto the field and shooting the oopposing defense's players on the way to the end-zone, shortly before killing himself.
* ''[[Snake Eyes]]'' opens with an assassination at a high-profile Atlantic City boxing match.
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* There was a series of crime novels that literally was based entirely on this trope, titles included ''Bleeding Dodger Blue'', ''Tigers Burning'', ''Fear in Fenway'' and ''Murder in Wrigley Field''.
* Dick Francis' novel ''Nerve'' begins with a jockey shooting himself in front of a big racing audience.
* [[Father Brown]] in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100829075432/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Father_Brown/Chapter_9 'The God Of The Gongs']
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"But what other plan is there?"
"There is only one," said the priest. "To make sure that everybody is looking at something else. A man is throttled close by the big stand at Epsom. Anybody might have seen it done while the stand stood empty--any tramp under the hedges or motorist among the hills. But nobody would have seen it when the stand was crowded and the whole ring roaring, when the favourite was coming in first--or wasn't. The twisting of a neck-cloth, the thrusting of a body behind a door could be done in an instant-- so long as it was that instant." }}
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[CSI New York]]'': A man dies after winning a million dollars via a basketball shot.
* ''[[Homicide: Life
== [[Radio]] ==
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