Eight men out
Eight Men Out
In the golden days of baseball, where the heros became legends and young fans could actually afford to pay to attend the games, an incident that would scar baseball for life was committed in the World Series of 1919. Based on the Elliot Asinof's 1963 best-seller of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, Eight Men Out is an attempt to tell the story of how the White Sox were hired by gamblers to throw World Series. …
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…to see. It is very much a game of wage earners against employers, not the Chicago White Sox vs. the Cincinnati Reds. The Black Sox scandal was an important symbolic event in American history. The great American institution of baseball, which represented our finest traditional values, was revealed to be corrupt. As Steven Riess so appropriately states, "If baseball was no good, what hope was there for the rest of our culture and society?" (pg. 65).
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