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| − | '''Eight Men Out''' (1988) was a [[baseball]] movie about the 1919 Chicago White Sox [[gambling]] scandal, based on the book '' | + | '''Eight Men Out''' (1988) was a [[baseball]] movie about the 1919 Chicago White Sox [[gambling]] scandal, based on the book ''Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series'' (1963) by Eliot Asinof. |
The movie was apparently unsuccessful financially, and has been criticized by supporters of "Shoeless" [[Joe Jackson]] for being insufficiently sympathetic to his innocence, subsequent acquittal, and victimization by a tyrannical commissioner wrongly making Jackson a high-profile scapegoat. | The movie was apparently unsuccessful financially, and has been criticized by supporters of "Shoeless" [[Joe Jackson]] for being insufficiently sympathetic to his innocence, subsequent acquittal, and victimization by a tyrannical commissioner wrongly making Jackson a high-profile scapegoat. | ||
[[category:baseball]] | [[category:baseball]] | ||
[[category:movies]] | [[category:movies]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:14, September 4, 2023
Eight Men Out (1988) was a baseball movie about the 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal, based on the book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (1963) by Eliot Asinof.
The movie was apparently unsuccessful financially, and has been criticized by supporters of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson for being insufficiently sympathetic to his innocence, subsequent acquittal, and victimization by a tyrannical commissioner wrongly making Jackson a high-profile scapegoat.
