Acht Mann und ein Skandal (1988)

Acht Mann und ein Skandal: Directed by John Sayles. With Jace Alexander, John Cusack, Gordon Clapp, Don Harvey. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

“This is one of the greatest sports stories ever told, the real story about how and WHY they fixed the World Series. Eliot Asinofu0026#39;s book should be read by anyone interested in history, and Sayles does an admirable job of tying it all together into a script (Sayles even cast Asinof in the movie, and then cast him again in Sunshine State.) Itu0026#39;s a story that anyone interested in a history of America, a history of labor and management, a history of the greatest game will definitely enjoy. After reading it, the Shoeless Joe character from u0026quot;Field of Dreamsu0026quot; suddenly has a resonance which that particular film could never explain (though it is nicely explained in the source for that film u0026quot;Shoeless Joeu0026quot;) Also worth reading is u0026quot;The Glory of Their Timesu0026quot; an oral history of early baseball.”