History Main / TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame

* In the ''ANightmareOnElmStreet: Paranoid'' comic Freddy kills a boy attending a pep rally by causing him to explode in a mess of blood when he nods off.

* 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.]]

* The main plot of ''TheLastBoyScout'' culminates with BruceWillis 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.

* There are numerous sports-themed slasher films, such as ''The Catcher, Film/{{Gutterballs}}, Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy'' and ''The Greenskeeper''.

->''Take me out at the ball game,''\\

''At the old ball game.''

* The main plot of ''{{The Last Boy Scout}}'' culminates with BruceWillis and Damon Wayans trying to stop a corrupt senator from getting assassinated at a football game.

* ''SuddenDeath'' is a terrorist thriller set in [[{{Pittsburgh}} Mellon Arena]] during Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.

* ''The Shadow of TheThinMan''. Although it's with a horse race.

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* Max Zorin and his thugs try to off JamesBond during a horse race in ''AViewToAKill''.

''Take me out at the ball game,''\\

* The opening fight of the ''FengShui'' 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 MacGuffinGirl whose powers a whole lot of people (those who don't want her dead anyway) want to use for their own ends.

* Aversion in ''{{The Naked Gun}}'' - the Queen is going to be assassinated but Drebin and company save her in time.

* ''BlackSunday'' involves a terrorist plot to bomb the SuperBowl.
** You will never look at the Goodyear blimp the same way again...

* A Thomas Harris novel (later film), ''BlackSunday'' involves the Super Bowl, terrorists, the Goodyear Blimp, and a large bomb.

* TomClancy's ''The Sum of All Fears'' has terrorists bringing a nuclear weapon to the Super Bowl. In the movie the president of the United States is also at the game and the game is never referred to as the Super Bowl.

* One episode of ''Golgo13'' has the title character killing a star football player in the middle of the game.

* One episode of ''Golgo 13'' has the title character killing a star football player in the middle of the game.
* One of the first chapters of City Hunter involves Ryo shooting a boxer during a match. Notable as it's one of the very rare cases where Ryo kills a target.

* In one [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] CaptainAmerica story, a player is murdered on field during a baseball game. Somewhat unbelievably, the game continues with Cap and Bucky subbing.

* A variation comes at the end of ''Experiment in Terror'', where it's the bad guy who gets shot and killed by cops during a ballgame.

* One episode of ''{{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 ([[IdiotPlot under the names of famous dead MLB players]]) and winning the whole season.

"For an intelligent murderer, such as you or I might be, it is an impossible plan to make sure that nobody is looking at you."

"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."

* The latest ''PinkPanther''.

* TomClancy's ''TheSumOfAllFears'' has terrorists bringing a nuclear weapon to the Super Bowl. In the movie the president of the United States is also at the game and the game is never referred to as the Super Bowl.

* Tom Clancy's ''The Sum of All Fears'' has the terrorists bring a nuclear weapon to the Super Bowl. In the movie the president of the United States is also at the game and the game is never referred to as the Super Bowl.

* The movie ''TwoMinuteWarning'' has a sniper at a championship football game.

* ''BlackSunday'' involves a terrorist plot to bomb the Super Bowl.

* Two episodes of ''DetectiveConan'' feature crimes that take place at sports events.

** The other case takes place at the high school baseball championships, an all-day event that covers the semi-finals and finals all at once. A mad bomber has decided to destroy the entire stadium and everyone in it, and it is up to Conan, Hattori, and police inspector Nakamura to find the cell phones the bomber has scattered throughout the stadium containing clues that eventually lead to him. In the end, the bomber's motive was some kind of convoluted revenge for his son's accidental death. Of course, it the fault actually rested largely with the son, who had overworked himself training and thus was unable to avoid getting run over on his way home, but the man still blamed the sport anyhow and planned to destroy the stadium as a form of symbolic revenge.

** The other case takes place at the high school baseball championships, an all-day event that covers the semi-finals and finals all at once. A mad bomber has decided to destroy the entire stadium and everyone in it, and it is up to Conan, Hattori, and (if this troper remembers correctly) police inspector Nakamura to find the cell phones the bomber has scattered throughout the stadium containing clues that eventually lead to him. In the end, the bomber's motive was some kind of convoluted revenge for his son's accidental death. Of course, it the fault actually rested largely with the son, who had overworked himself training and thus was unable to avoid getting run over on his way home, but the man still blamed the sport anyhow and planned to destroy the stadium as a form of symbolic revenge.

* The main plot of ''{{The Last Boy Scout}}'' culminates with Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans trying to stop a bomb from detonating at the Super Bowl.

* In one GoldenAge CaptainAmerica story, a player is murdered on field during a baseball game. Somewhat unbelievably, the game continues with Cap and Bucky subbing.