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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In one [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] ''[[Captain America]]'' 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 Onon 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.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery''
* Aversion in ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]]'' - the Queen is going to be assassinated but Drebin and company save her in time.
* ''[[The Thin Man (Filmfilm)|The Shadow of the Thin Man]]''. Although it's with a horse race.
* The first reimagined ''[[Pink Panther]]'' film has the owner of the titular gem being killed at a soccer game.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] during a horse race in ''[[A View to A Kill (Film)|A View to Aa Kill]]''.
* The main plot of ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'' culminates with [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] and Damon Wayans trying to stop a corrupt senator from getting assassinated at a football game.
** 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.
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* A variation comes at the end of ''Experiment in Terror'', where it's the bad guy who gets shot and killed by cops on a ballfield immediately after a game.
* A boy is cut in half with a chainsaw just outside a baseball field in ''Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness''.
* There are numerous sports-themed slasher films, such as ''The Catcher, [[Gutterballs (Film)|Gutterballs]], Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy'' and ''The Greenskeeper''.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[CSI New York]]'': A man dies after winning a million dollars via a basketball shot.
* ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street]]'': A visiting fan is found beaten to death during an Orioles/Yankees game.
 
== [[Radio]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The opening fight of the ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]'' adventure "Murderer's Row" in the supplement "In Your Face Again" has the PCs trying to stop a hit attempt on a young girl by the Lotus at a baseball game. The girl turns out to be a [[MacGuffin Girl]] whose powers a whole lot of people (those who don't want her dead anyway) want to use for their own ends.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[King of the Hill|Cotton Hill]] attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro while he was visiting New York and decided to take in an American Baseball game, a ballgame Hank wound up being born during in the women's restroom.
* One episode of ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' involves a conspiracy to eliminate the President of the United States and replace him with a robot duplicate. By ambushing him at the Little League World Series. By signing up a little league team comprised entirely of superhuman robots ([[Idiot Plot|under the names of famous dead MLB players]]) and winning the whole season.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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