"Clifton James - Charles Comiskey"
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American period sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series. Most of the movie was filmed at
"I always figured it was talent made a man big, you know, if I was the best at something. I mean, were the guys they come to see. Without us, there aint a ballgame. Yeah, but look at whos holding the money and look at whos facing a jail cell. Talent dont mean nothing. And wheres Comiskey and Sullivan, Attell, Rothstein? Out in the back room cutting up profits, thats where. Thats the damn conspiracy."
Eight Men Out"When the cheering stopped, there were...Eight Men Out."
Eight Men Out"The inside story of how one team, for a price, broke all the rules...along with the heart of every kid in the USA."
Eight Men Out"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."
Eight Men Out"[as the team prepares for a team photo] Come on, guys. Pretend its Commys wake. [team laughs and the pictures taken]"
Eight Men Out"I still get such a bang out of it, playing ball. Same as I did when I first came up. You get out there, and the stands are full and everybodys cheerin. Its like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that theres the players, theyre yakkin it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly theres nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, theres a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know its going to go a long way. Damn, if you dont feel like youre going to live forever...I couldnt give all that up. Not for nothing."
Eight Men Out