Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out ( Original title: Eight Men Out ) is an American movie from 1988 with Charlie Sheen and John Cusack in the lead roles. Production company was Orion Pictures Corporation. The film deals with the true events of the Black Sox scandal of 1919.

Content

The young baseball player Buck Weaver and Academy Award Happy FELSCH play in the World Series in 1919 for the team of the Chicago White Sox. The team hochfavorisierte the White Sox this season reached the final of the baseball championship. The team is considered to be unbeatable and is run by the greedy manager Charles Comiskey. Comiskey paid his players poorly and treats them disrespectfully. Due to the poor payment bookmakers and betting sharks attention to the dissatisfied and frustrated players. They manage to convince gradually eight players from the playoffs to lose the championship. Among the bribed players was also the legendary player Shoeless Joe Jackson. After the Sox were always defeated by the Cincinnati Reds, sniff some sportscaster thrust. They ultimately succeeded in uncovering the biggest scandal in the history of American baseball. At the end of the eight professionals were banned for life.

Participating players

  • Shoeless Joe Jackson
  • Eddie Cicotte
  • Lefty Williams
  • Chick Gandil
  • Fred McMullen
  • Swede Risberg
  • Happy FELSCH
  • Buck Weaver
1988 in film John Sayles Screenplay Film score Mason Daring Robert Richardson (cinematographer) D. B. Sweeney Fictional film 1919 World Series
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