Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

1988: John Sayles, director; starring John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney. Drama that tells the story of the 1919 White Sox, considered one of the greatest baseball teams ever assembled but which lost the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds – a loss due to fixing by gamblers led by early New York City mobster Arnold Rothstein. The true story is considered one of the saddest tales in the annals of American sports, the so-called “Black Sox Scandal.”