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Eight Men Out (1988) - Uncut (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-14 02:27:47
Imported:
2026-06

Content

John Cusack, DB Sweeney, Michael Rooker, David Strathairn, Charlie Sheen, John Mahoney, Christopher Lloyd, Clifton James, Perry Lang, Gordon Schalk, Bill Irwin, Don Harvey, Brad Garrett (not that one)

Comments

Actuarial Lurker

Just looked it up- $10K in 1919 has a current purchasing power of $185K. The average annual wage was $1300 so $10K would be almost 8 years pay for a blue collar worker. A house cost $6500 so someone could buy a home in the suburbs all cash and still have $3500 left over.

Erin Mileur

Something important that the film doesn’t mention is that one of their White Sox’s best pitchers Red Faber couldn’t participate because of injuries and the lingering effects of the Spanish flu. Ray Schalk (Gordon Clapp) always said that if Red had been healthy the fix never could have happened.

Erin Mileur

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (he was named for the civil war battle at Kennesaw Mountain his father fought at) was a federal judge. Well known as a showboat judge who was often reversed on appeal.

Joy M

Love that Yinz shirt, Joe!

Joy M

My mom doesn’t get the Shoeless Joe Jackson stuff in Field of Dreams. I told her it’s because she’s never seen Eight Men Out. Her response, “I have to watch another baseball movie to understand this one? Forget it!”

trenton gragg

In Ken Burns Baseball documentary, John Sayles and Studs Terkel are two of the “talking heads” throughout the documentary. The scene of the reporter(John Sayles) singing “Forever Throwing Ballgames” was based on a true story that referenced in the documentary.

Actuarial Lurker

Couple of followups based your questions and comments: 1) Ed Cicotte was one of the best pitchers in the AL and MASSIVELY underpaid by Comiskey- he went 28W-12L with a 1.54 ERA in 1917, but was injured most of 1918 and had a a base salary of just $6,000 in 1919. He DID have a performance clause that would pay a $10,000 bonus if he won 30 games in 1919. Late in the year Cicotte was 29W-7L with an ERA of 1.82 and all of a sudden the White Sox manager benched him for his last FIVE scheduled starts to "rest his arm" for the post-season. There was plausible deniability by the team since Cicotte missed a lot of 1918 with an arm injury. BUT 5 starts?!? The allegation was that Comiskey ordered the manger to bench him to avoid the bonus despite that harming the team.....the $10K he was bribed with was what Comiskey should have paid him if he had won just a single start. Cicotte was a KNUCKLEBALL pitcher so there was no way he would need 20-25 days rest...he still went 1-2 in his 3 World Series starts. 2) Shoeless Joe had a (then) World Series record 12 hits in 1919, the only home run from either team in the Series, with 6 RBI and 5 runs, NO errors, batting .375- pretty good for someone allegedly throwing every game, 3) Babe Ruth was quoted as saying he copied Jackson's batting swing since he was " the best hitter I had ever seen"

Actuarial Lurker

Three months ago, on May 13, 2025 the CURRENT MLB Commissioner posthumously reinstated ALL previously banned and deceased players agreeing with the attorney for Rose's estate that once dead you can no longer actively harm the league- so Rose, Jackson and the other 7. White Sox are eligible for the Hall of Fame vote. It seems to me that they waited for Rose to pass away in late 2024 to send a message so he wouldn't have the satisfaction of making the HoF while alive since he ADMITTED to betting ON his team to win while he was the player/manager and controlled the outcomes. They are eligible in 2028 for the ballot so will see what the BBWAA Baseball Writers Assn of America does

Actuarial Lurker
>>183976110

From Sep 1916 to late 1917 Cicotte had a 25 consecutive game streak of allowing 3 or fewer earned runs in each game, that was a "quality starts" record that stood for almost FIFTY years until Bob Gibson broke it in the late 1960s....shows how underpaid Cicotte was

Erin Mileur

In 1989 John Cusack and John Mahoney starred together in Say Anything.

Erin Mileur

Arnold Rothstein died in 1928 after he was shot after welched on a debt after he refused to pay 320,000 he lost in a high stakes poker game. He refused to pay because he said the game was fixed ironic huh.

Stephanie Bedworth

I was actually in a state marching band competition when I was junior in high school that took place at Bush Stadium in Indianapolis. I noticed all the old looking billboards and someone told me, "yeah, I think they're shooting a movie here." It was this one. LOL