Eight Men Out | Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp | Shoeless Joe had Shoes, but No Money

Eight Men Out | Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp | SOX GET WASHED!

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Eight Men Out

	Eight Men Out Jace Alexander, Gordon Clapp Orion Studios, 1990 average customer review:based on 56 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Shoeless Joe had Shoes, but No Money

Great movie. Tells the story, of course, favoring Shoeless Joe's viewpoint, of the famous gambling incident. Whether it is the book or the video, you get the impression that old Joe should be in the Hall of Fame rather than the Hall of Shame.

This is a movie you and your kid should watch, because it is clean, tells a good story and a good moral. After all, it is baseball!

SOX GET WASHED!

Over the last couple of decades we have had a few excellent movies made about the game of baseball. This particular movie concentrates on the Chicago White Sox scandal of 1919. Several players agreed to accept money to throw some games in the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. The event became known as "The Black Sox Scandal" but that was not the reason why they became known as "The Black Sox". The real story behind that nickname is that the owner of the White Sox discovered he could save a few nickels by having the team be responsible individually for their own clothing maintenance. This resulted in shabby appearances in their uniforms and therefore "Black Sox" became the team name. Well, the fact is that the owner was gracious to those who could make him look good, as in the press. He is shown treating them like gold. The players are treated as some sort of bottom feeding basement trolls who don't deserve anything but leftover scraps from the King's table. The truth lies somewhere in-between and this movie conveys the message very well. There are not many major actors, no big leads, but the film plays out well and there are interesting game scenes in what is basically almost a clean movie. There was no radio back then so every situation was delivered over morse code messages by wire. It is very entertaining, interesting and portrays the era well enough. Well worth a viewing.

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Eight Men Out

Excellent movie protraying a time gone by, when things were quite different and yet still the same in baseball. What the players did was wrong, but you still felt sorry for them, and wished it didn't happen. So many lives and careers were destroyed through greed and stupidity.

I felt the acting was quite good. Anyone who loves baseball and especially baseball history would enjoy this movie.

8 Men Out

Awesome movie it really describes the history behind one of the biggest baseball scandles of all time.

A reality check for Baseball fans

The Black Sox were a great team. i doubt Joe Jackson and Bucky Weaver threw the seris.Eight Men out made me mad and a little down, if they did it who else did? This is a good movie if you get a sick feeling from it youre not alone. Great job by this cast.

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