Eight Men Out (1988)

Actors

• John Anderson (actor)
• Brad Armacost (actor)
• Eliot Asinof (actor)
• Clyde Bassett (actor)
• Ken Berry (actor)
• John E. Blazier (actor)
• Jerry Brent (actor)
• Patrick Brown (actor)
• David Carpenter (actor)
• Max Chiddester (actor)
• Gordon Clapp (actor)
• John D. Craig (actor)
• Luther Creek (actor)
• Dick Cusack (actor)
• Jace Alexander (actor)

Genres

• Drama
• History
• Sport

Taglines:

1919. The year America saw major league baseball played a whole new way...underhanded.
The Scandal That Rocked A Nation
The inside story of how the national pastime became a national scandal.
When the cheering stopped, there were... Eight Men Out.
No player who throws ball games will ever play professional baseball again.

Quotes:

Chick Gandil: You go back to Boston and turn seventy grand at the drop of a hat? I find that hard to believe.::Sport Sullivan: You say you can find seven men on the best club that ever took the field willin' to throw the World Series? I find *that* hard to believe.::Chick Gandil: You never played for Charlie Comiskey.

[about their opponents]::1st Cincinnati Reds Player: These guys don't look so tough.::2nd Cincinnati Reds Player: Yeah, that's what Custer said when the Indians took the field.

Ring Lardner: [serenading White Sox after game 5, to the tune of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"] I'm forever blowing ballgames, pretty ballgames in the air. I come from Chi, I hardly try, just go to bat and fade and die. Fortune's coming my way, that's why I hardly care. I'm forever blowing ballgames, and the gamblers treat us fair.

[Shoeless Joe Jackson is talking to his bat]::Shoeless Joe: Big whop now. Big whop, Betsy; you tell me when.::Freddie: Does it ever answer you, Joe?::Lefty Williams: Probably sleeps with it, too.::Lefty Williams: Lay off, you guys.::Hap Felsch: You crackers stick together, huh?::Swede Risberg: Ask it for a triple, Joe. You hear me?::Freddie: 60 years since the Civil War, Lefty. Ease up.::Hap Felsch: Besides, you guys lost. It was in all the papers.::Freddie: That wouldn't help Jackson none.::[Players laugh]::Lefty Williams: Just leave him be.

[Burns and Maharg are discussing Eddie Cicotte]::Bill Burns: Eddie's gettin' too old for this. I know what it's like. You walk out there with your arm hangin.::Billy Maharg: You couldn't pitch when you was young, Burnsie.::Bill Burns: Eddie's the key. If we don't get him, we can forget about it.

[Atell and Rothstein are discussing the plan to fix the series]::Abe Atell: They say that six or seven guys. I find that hard to believe.::Arnold Rothstein: Doesn't surprise me.::Abe Atell: Yeah, but they're the champs.::Arnold Rothstein: You were champ, Abe, you went down for the bucks.::Abe Atell: This is different.::Arnold Rothstein: Look, champ. I know guys like that. I grew up with them. I was the fat kid they wouldn't let play. "Sit down, fat boy'. That's what they'd say "Sit down, maybe you'll learn something." Well, I learned something alright. Pretty soon, I owned the game, and those guys I grew up with come to me with their hats in their hands. Tell me, champ, all those years of puggin', how much money did you make?::Abe Atell: The honest fights or the ones I tanked?::Arnold Rothstein: Altogether, I must've made ten times that amount betting on you and I never took a punch.::Abe Atell: Yeah, but I was champ. Featherweight champeen of the world!::Arnold Rothstein: Yesterday. That was yesterday.::Abe Atell: No A.R. you're wrong. I was champ, and can't nothin take that away.

Kid Gleason: People are human.

Ring Lardner: Sports writers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your bar privileges.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Regardless of the verdict of juries... no player who throws a ball game... no player who undertakes, or promises to throw a game... no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ball game are discussed, and does not promptly tell his club about it... will ever play professional baseball again.

[Some New Jersey fans are arguing on whether a Hoboken outfielder is Joe Jackson (the outfielder is, in fact, Shoeless Joe)]::New Jersey Fan #1: You ever see him play?::New Jersey Fan #2: Yeah, I saw pictures.::New Jersey Fan #1: Pictures [scoffs]::Buck Weaver: I saw him play.::New Jersey Fan #1: Yeah? What do you think?::Buck Weaver: He was the best. Run, hit, throw... he was the best.::New Jersey Fan #1: So what do you think? Is it him?::Buck Weaver: Nah. Those fellas are all gone now.