Eight Men Out, Movie, 1988

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Also known as:

Acht Mann und ein Skandal (Germany)
Ocho hombres (Spain)
Les coulisses de l'exploit (France)
エイト・メン・アウ (Japan)
Fuera de línea (Mexico)
O Escândalo de Black Sox (Portugal)
Boсемь выходя (USSR)

1918 Chevrolet 490

1917 Ford Model T

1920 Franklin Model 9-B

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GodzillaFan54 ◊ 2023-11-08 16:54	1988 sports drama about the 1919 Black Sox World Series scandal where eight players of Boston's White Sox baseball team deliberately threw the game as part of a scheme organized by gangsters for $80'000, forever putting a hideous stain on the face of America's beloved past time. This corruption scandal lead to the National Baseball Commission being dissolved and Kenesaw Mountain Landis (yes, that was his actual name) becoming the first commissioner of baseball. When news broke of the scandal, there was extensive outrage in the media and the public for dirtying a sport that up until this point was considered as clean as a preacher's sheets. Kenesaw Landis ensured that the book was thrown hard at the eight players responsible, resulting in all eight men, including baseball's golden boy Shoeless Joe Jackson, receiving lifetime bans from the sport. Baseball was so revered that the corruption was seen as such a despicable act that even one newspaper urged the public to "Fix These Faces In Your Memory", the article of which also included photographs of all eight men. Shoeless Joe Jackson confessed to his part but later retracted it and proclaimed his innocence and tried to get the ban repealed, but failed. Other members of the Black Sox also attempted this, but Landis, having expelled them from organized baseball, refused to budge. The Black Sox also attempted a tri-state barnstorming tour, but this was quashed by Landis making it clear that anyone who played with or against them would also receive lifetime bans. After this, the Black Sox stated they would play a regular exhibition game in Chicago every Saturday, but the Chicago City Council threatened to suspend the license of any stadium that took part, putting an permanent end to the careers of those involved in the scandal. Landis remained Commissioner of Baseball until his death in 1944, his firm actions and iron rule over baseball restoring public faith in the sport, in part due to him showing no mercy towards the Black Sox member being reason enough for any sensible ball player to remain on the straight and narrow. This movie does not feature very many cars, largely due to the movie primarily taking place indoors or at baseball fields and focusing on a non-vehicular sport. Difficultly procuring period-accurate vehicles may have also been a factor but that is merely speculation. I was still expecting a few Packards and Cadillacs, since gangsters played a large role in the scandal, but the only cars that appear are in a 15-second stretch during the first scene. A biplane for impdb, a train for our sites' railfans, and an antique phone and ticker-tape machine for rjluna2. Soviet and Japanese titles are incomplete due to parsing issues -- Last edit: 2023-11-08 16:58:21
dsl ◊ 2023-11-08 17:49	The scandal inspired this 1975 song
San ◊ 2023-11-08 20:09	GodzillaFan54 wrote Too blurry to make out anything of note. 2-6-0, 2-8-0? It appears the RR scenes were filmed in Kentucky. None of the local museums have a locomotive slimier to the one shown above. Maybe one of our southern steam buffs could identify it better?

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◊ 2023-11-08 16:54

1988 sports drama about the 1919 Black Sox World Series scandal where eight players of Boston's White Sox baseball team deliberately threw the game as part of a scheme organized by gangsters for $80'000, forever putting a hideous stain on the face of America's beloved past time. This corruption scandal lead to the National Baseball Commission being dissolved and Kenesaw Mountain Landis (yes, that was his actual name) becoming the first commissioner of baseball. When news broke of the scandal, there was extensive outrage in the media and the public for dirtying a sport that up until this point was considered as clean as a preacher's sheets. Kenesaw Landis ensured that the book was thrown hard at the eight players responsible, resulting in all eight men, including baseball's golden boy Shoeless Joe Jackson, receiving lifetime bans from the sport. Baseball was so revered that the corruption was seen as such a despicable act that even one newspaper urged the public to "Fix These Faces In Your Memory", the article of which also included photographs of all eight men.

Shoeless Joe Jackson confessed to his part but later retracted it and proclaimed his innocence and tried to get the ban repealed, but failed. Other members of the Black Sox also attempted this, but Landis, having expelled them from organized baseball, refused to budge. The Black Sox also attempted a tri-state barnstorming tour, but this was quashed by Landis making it clear that anyone who played with or against them would also receive lifetime bans. After this, the Black Sox stated they would play a regular exhibition game in Chicago every Saturday, but the Chicago City Council threatened to suspend the license of any stadium that took part, putting an permanent end to the careers of those involved in the scandal. Landis remained Commissioner of Baseball until his death in 1944, his firm actions and iron rule over baseball restoring public faith in the sport, in part due to him showing no mercy towards the Black Sox member being reason enough for any sensible ball player to remain on the straight and narrow.

This movie does not feature very many cars, largely due to the movie primarily taking place indoors or at baseball fields and focusing on a non-vehicular sport. Difficultly procuring period-accurate vehicles may have also been a factor but that is merely speculation. I was still expecting a few Packards and Cadillacs, since gangsters played a large role in the scandal, but the only cars that appear are in a 15-second stretch during the first scene.

A biplane for impdb, a train for our sites' railfans, and an antique phone and ticker-tape machine for rjluna2.

Soviet and Japanese titles are incomplete due to parsing issues

-- Last edit: 2023-11-08 16:58:21

dsl

◊ 2023-11-08 17:49

The scandal inspired this 1975 song

San

◊ 2023-11-08 20:09

GodzillaFan54 wrote

Too blurry to make out anything of note. 2-6-0, 2-8-0?

It appears the RR scenes were filmed in Kentucky. None of the local museums have a locomotive slimier to the one shown above. Maybe one of our southern steam buffs could identify it better?

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