Greatest individual performance by a fictional athlete in a movie?

I'm not going to check if this one's been done before.

I'm home sick today and just watched "For Love of The Game," in which the 40-year-old Detroit righthander Billy Chapel, on the back end of a Hall of Fame career and pitching through the pain caused by a recent career-threatening arm injury, throws a perfect game at Yankee Stadium.

It got me to thinking, was this the best game ever played by an athlete in a movie? Who ya got?

 

Our line starts?

 

Jimmie Chitwood.
Even with Norman Dale's overcoaching.

 

Reg Dunlop is the greatest leader in sports movie history.

 

James Moxin's pinpoint passing helping West Canaan to the district championship, even though the Wing-T-oriented team had never played a spread offense before.

Dave Stoller riding 180 of the 200 laps of the Little 500, leading the Cutters to victory.

 

Steve Nebraska from "The Scout"

Perfect perfect game -- 81 pitches all strikes.

Incredibly unrealistic, but it is on celluloid.

 

Johnathon Moxin?

 

Jan Michael Vincent as Nanu in "The World's Greatest Athlete" is hard to top.

 

Gus, the horse. Kicking 80 - 100 yard field goals with pinpoint precision. Had to overcome having Don Knotts as his coach.

Even amazed the team announcer, one Mr. Bob Crane. (Well, maybe other parts of Gus amazed Bob, but whatever).

 

Roy Hobbs. ...

 

Gotta be Steve Nebraska. Can't get better than 27 strikeouts on 81 pitches.

Or, a better one, Rocky Balboa in Balboa-Creed I. Guy knows he's not going to win from the get-go, goes through 15 rounds of hell and comes out smiling on the other side.

 

Yup... although I can think of a couple of posters here who would back Gus, the Kicking Mule...