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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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(From EW.com - PopWatch. 13 November 2009, 12:48 PM, PST)
Discuss: Your Favorite Baseball Movie(s)
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Cast
(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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The ballpark used to make the film, Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, was converted to a dirt race track and is now known as the 16th Street Speedway.
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Factual errors: When the confessions disappeared, the next newspaper headline shows a date of Feb 2, 1920. The trial for the White Sox scandal didn't even open until June 27, 1921.
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[the Sox have just won the AL penant and are in the clubhouse. Some champagne bottles are sitting on a table]
Eddie Cicotte: What's this, Harry?
Harry: Mr. Comiskey sent these down for you. A congratulations for a successful pennant race.
Eddie Cicotte: That's awfully white of him. He didn't happen to mention when we can expect that bonus he promised us in return for taking the flag, did he?
Harry: This IS your bonus.
Swede Risberg: Cheap bastard.
Kid Gleason: Look, fellas, if it was up to me...
Eddie Cicotte: Kid, we got no beef with you.
[opens one of the champagne bottles - nothing happens]
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Eddie Cicotte: What's this, Harry?
Harry: Mr. Comiskey sent these down for you. A congratulations for a successful pennant race.
Eddie Cicotte: That's awfully white of him. He didn't happen to mention when we can expect that bonus he promised us in return for taking the flag, did he?
Harry: This IS your bonus.
Swede Risberg: Cheap bastard.
Kid Gleason: Look, fellas, if it was up to me...
Eddie Cicotte: Kid, we got no beef with you.
[opens one of the champagne bottles - nothing happens]
[...]
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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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Although I generally agree with Roger Ebert's reviews, I just can't understand how he was annoyed enough with this movie to give it a measly two stars. He claims that there wasn't enough exposition. I found everything explained satisfactorily, even for the non-fan or baseball history buff. And it is period-piece film-making at its finest. I cannot imagine a better telling of this story. And the baseball action is excellent. One factual error, though: Bucky Weaver (John Cusack) would never mention Babe Ruth as better (or even comparable) to Cobb, Speaker and Wheat in 1919 or 1920. It shocks me that Sayles kept that line. USA Today heralded "Eight Men Out" as the greatest baseball movie ever, and though there is some fine company, I find it hard to disagree.