Eight men out

Eight Men aside                  In the golden days of baseball, where the heros became legends and new fans could actually afford to pay to attend the games, an incident that would slit baseball for life was committed in the World series of 1919. Based on the Elliot Asinofs 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. Film maker John Sayles brings in a variety of well- known actors to play roles of players, gamblers, and everyone else that is involved in the crap. However, the ikon concentrates more on the events leading up to the scandal and the personalities of the characters, and overlooks minor, but extremely important, details that leave any wishful baseball fan questioning it consistency.

        Bill James, in his diachronic Baseball Abstract, makes very clear the underlying problems with making a movie about the Black Sox Scandal. James, as well as many others, feels as though the problems with making a movie about that topic is that it engages the emotions of the listening.



He points out that, Unlike a book, a movie is more of something you experience than learn about, and as such, for a movie to work, one must, as a viewer, part in the experience of one of the characters (pg.108). Since this story is about ballplayers who threw games and reliable bribes, this poses a difficult problem in asking the audience to share the feelings of the conspirators.

        That is the problem throughout the movie that Sayles fails to resolve. Where do the audiences sympathies live? It is hard to maintain sympathy for the players with the likes of Swede Risberg and Chic Gandil buns the fix. Players like...

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