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2 September 1988 (USA)
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1919. The year America saw major league baseball played a whole new way...underhanded. more
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A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. full summary | add synopsis
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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king
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Discuss: Your Favorite Baseball Movie(s)
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Discuss: Your Favorite Baseball Movie(s)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Cusack | ... | George 'Buck' Weaver |
 | Clifton James | ... | Charles 'Commie' Comiskey |
 | Michael Lerner | ... | Arnold Rothstein |
 | Christopher Lloyd | ... | 'Sleepy' Bill Burns |
 | John Mahoney | ... | William 'Kid' Gleason |
 | Charlie Sheen | ... | Oscar 'Hap' Felsch |
 | David Strathairn | ... | Eddie Cicotte |
 | D.B. Sweeney | ... | Joseph 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson |
 | Michael Rooker | ... | Arnold 'Chick' Gandil |
 | Don Harvey | ... | Charles 'Swede' Risberg |
 | James Read | ... | Claude 'Lefty' Williams |
| Perry Lang | ... | Fred McMullin |
 | Gordon Clapp | ... | Ray Schalk |
 | Jace Alexander | ... | Dickie Kerr |
| Bill Irwin | ... | Eddie Collins |
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Factual errors: During the first game of the series, the scoreboard is shown in the bottom of the 4th inning with the score being Reds 1, White Sox 0. The actual box score shows that the Reds scored one run in the bottom of the 1st inning and the White Sox scored one run in the top of the 2nd inning. The score should have been tied 1-1 at the bottom of the 4th inning.
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Eddie Collins:
Everybody's got their own way of letting off steam, Ring. It's what you do on the field that counts.
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Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#7.28)" (2008)
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After You've Gone
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John Sayles is always, always honest with his audiences, never resorting to cheap tricks or unwarranted sentiment; and this period drama about the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919 may be his finest hour. Incredibly handsome and lavish-looking for a low-budget indie, it's a meticulous re-creation of the first huge scandal in American professional sports, and the beginning of the loss of innocence in pro baseball (and American popular culture by extension). If that makes it sound a bit dry, let it be said that the characterizations are vivid, the characters multilayered, the costumes gorgeous, and the staging of the baseball games unusually convincing. (Ever notice how movie stars can't really fake pro-athlete moves? Watch John Cusack charge an outfield fly, or Charlie Sheen slide into third--they had me convinced.) In a uniformly excellent cast, David Strathairn's morally tortured star pitcher is especially impressive, as is John Mahoney's manager, alternately loving and despising his players, his eroding trust etched on his expressive face. And what a wonderful touch having Studs Terkel play a cynical sportswriter: He's the essence of Chicago style.
Some of the facts of the story are necessarily simplified or omitted to keep the movie under two hours, but there's not a moment of dishonesty or "Field of Dreams"-type goo. By the time the kid is looking Joe Jackson in the eye and pleading, "Say it ain't so," you'll probably be sniffling.
A high-water mark in the career of a great, versatile, underappreciated moviemaker.