"Yo, Mike? You gonna visit my distinguished ass in California? You know, I'm planning on gettin' rich. I'm thinking of hiring Eddie Murphy to come over and tell you some jokes until you crack a damn smile. No? Well, how about Richard Pryor? Bill Cosby? Now, I know you like Bill Cosby. [In Bill Cosby voice] Mike Winchell, you do a good job of handing Boobie Miles the ball, and once in a while you throw a pretty good pass, so you make sure to eat your Jell-O Pudding Pops. Waaaaaahhh!"

"Y'all wanna win? Put Boobie in."

"You just-you ain't gettin' it. You don't understand. This is the only thing you're ever gonna have. Forever, it carries you forever. It's an ugly fact of life. Donnie, hell. It's the only fact of life. You got one year, one stinkin' year to make yourself some memories, son. That's all. It's gone after that. And I'll be damned if you're not gonna miss it."

"Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasn't one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!"

"I've seen you fight. I've seen you not quit. Can you give me a great effort and just a little bit more. Can you be perfect?"

"Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now."

"Billy Bob Thornton - Coach Gary Gaines"

"I want you to take a moment, and I want you to look each other in the eyes. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen here in just a few minutes. I want you to close your eyes, and I want you to think about Boobie Miles, who is your brother. And he would die to be out there in that field with you tonight. And I want you to put that in your hearts. Boys my heart is full. My heart is full."

"Shelley Fabares - Joy Piccolo"

"Studs Terkel - Hugh Fullerton"

"Kevin Tighe - Sport Sullivan"

"Lucas Black - Mike Winchell"

"Paul Walters - Roy Mitchell"

"John Sayles - Ring Lardner"

"Stop reading the news clippings. You're small and you're going to be smaller every week. There ain't going to be no growth spurt between now and the first game. You're going to use your minds! You're going to play with your heart! And that is what you're going to use to win the State Championship."

"Michael Rooker - Chick Gandil"

"Perry Lang - Fred McMullin"

"Michael Lerner - Arnold Rothstein"

"Christopher Lloyd - Bill Burns"

"Clifton James - Charles Comiskey"

"Richard Edson - Billy Maharg"

"Don Harvey - Swede Risberg"

"John Mahoney - Kid Gleason"

"Bill Irwin - Eddie Collins"

"John Cusack - Buck Weaver"

"Charlie Sheen - Happy Felsch"

"David Strathairn - Eddie Cicotte"

"Gordon Clapp - Ray Schalk"

"Michael Mantell - Abe Attell"

"Judy Pace - Linda Sayers"

"Jace Alexander - Dickey Kerr"

"John Anderson - Kenesaw Mountain Landis"

"D. B. Sweeney - Shoeless Joe Jackson"

"The inside story of how one team, for a price, broke all the rules...along with the heart of every kid in the USA."

"When the cheering stopped, there were...Eight Men Out."

"1919. The year America saw major league baseball played a whole new way...underhanded."

"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."

"James Read - Lefty Williams"

"[as the team prepares for a team photo] Come on, guys. Pretend it's Commy's wake. [team laughs and the picture's taken]"

"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 everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you feel right, there's 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 it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever...I couldn't give all that up. Not for nothing."

"The Scandal That Rocked A Nation"

"I always figured it was talent made a man big, you know, if I was the best at something. I mean, we're the guys they come to see. Without us, there ain't a ballgame. Yeah, but look at who's holding the money and look at who's facing a jail cell. Talent don't mean nothing. And where's Comiskey and Sullivan, Attell, Rothstein? Out in the back room cutting up profits, that's where. That's the damn conspiracy."

"The inside story of how the national pastime became a national scandal."

"Bernie Casey - J.C. Caroline"

"David Huddleston - Ed McCaskey"