Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out is a 1988 sports drama film based on Eliot Asinofs 1963 book Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseballs Black Sox scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series or were aware of the fix. Much of the movie was filmed at the old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.

When gamblers Sleepy Bill Burns and Billy Maharg get wind of the players discontent, they offer a select group of Sox including star knuckleball pitcher Eddie Cicotte, who led the majors with a 297 winloss record and has an earned run average of just 1.82 more money to play badly than they would have earned by winning the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Cicottes motivation for being involved was because Comiskey refused him a promised 10,000 should he wingames for the season. Cicotte was nearing the milestone until Comiskey ordered manager Kid Gleason to bench him forweeks missingstarts to rest the 35yearold veterans arm for the series.A number of players, including Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, and Lefty Williams, go along with the scheme. The teams greatest star, Shoeless Joe Jackson, is depicted as being not very bright and not entirely sure what is going on. Buck Weaver, meanwhile, is included with the seven others but insists that he wants nothing to do with the fix. ........

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