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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Eight Men Out is a 1988 Sports movie about the 1919 Baseball scandal involving the Chicago White Sox players who threw the World Series. Directed by John Sayles and starring John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, and Christopher Lloyd. The movie was adapted from the 1963 historical book by Eliot Asinof.It's the early Golden Age of professional baseball, and one of the best teams of the era is the Chicago White Sox led by a great young home run hitter known as Shoeless Joe. However, all is not well: the players are treated horribly by their spendthrift team owners and paid meager salaries while they see millions of dollars being generated - not just by the owners but also the gamblers betting on their games - off of their work.Outraged by a particular slight from their owner Comiskey before the start of the World Series, a number of White Sox players decide to listen to an offer from small-time gamblers on the idea of throwing the entire World Series - which the bookies are setting up as an easy Sox win - and then getting a cut of the action when those bets pay off. The problems quickly become apparent: More players have to be brought into the scheme to make it work, and the small-time gamblers need bigger financial backers - like say mob boss Arnold Rothstein - to pull off the big bets. Player Buck Weaver finds out and tries to talk his teammates into stopping the scheme before it gets worse. On top of all this, two intrepid reporters - Ring Lardner and Hugh Fullerton - grow suspicious about the rumors they're getting about skewed bets placed against the favored White Sox, and they start tracking questionable plays during the Series...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Affably Evil: Most of the gamblers dealing with the players are like this, especially Burns, the former player who comes up with the idea, Sport Sullivan who is on friendly terms with Chick Gandil. Subverted with Rothstein, who is aloof, cold-hearted and strictly business.
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 Artistic License – History: Both the movie and the book it is based on are riddled with inaccuracies. See here and here and here. A sampling follows. The scene where the young fans confront Shoeless Joe outside the courtroom saying "Say it ain't so, Joe!" is based on an Urban Legend. In Real Life, Jackson and the other players admit that moment never happened. The scene with the flat champagne really happened, but it occurred during the celebration for the 1917 World Series the White Sox won two years ago. The movie itself ends on the Urban Legend that Shoeless Joe continued playing in small market semi-pro leagues under an assumed name until the 1930s. There's little evidence he did, and most accounts had him going back home to Greenville, South Carolina to various odd jobs before owning his own liquor store. In the film, Charles Comiskey is shown holding out pitcher Eddie Cicotte from his last scheduled start so that he will miss out on an incentive clause in his contract. This never happened, and Cicotte was promised no such bonus. Cicotte in fact went for his 30th win in his last start of the 1919 season but lost the game, being yanked after pitching badly.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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