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"Paul Walters - Roy Mitchell"
"When the cheering stopped, there were...Eight Men Out."
"1919. The year America saw major league baseball played a whole new way...underhanded."
"The Scandal That Rocked A Nation"
"The inside story of how the national pastime became a national scandal."
"Jace Alexander - Dickey Kerr"
"John Anderson - Kenesaw Mountain Landis"
"Gordon Clapp - Ray Schalk"
"John Cusack - Buck Weaver"
"Charlie Sheen - Happy Felsch"
"David Strathairn - Eddie Cicotte"
"D. B. Sweeney - Shoeless Joe Jackson"
"Richard Edson - Billy Maharg"
"Don Harvey - Swede Risberg"
"Bill Irwin - Eddie Collins"
"Clifton James - Charles Comiskey"
"Perry Lang - Fred McMullin"
"Michael Lerner - Arnold Rothstein"
"Christopher Lloyd - Bill Burns"
"John Mahoney - Kid Gleason"
"Michael Mantell - Abe Attell"
"James Read - Lefty Williams"
"Michael Rooker - Chick Gandil"
"John Sayles - Ring Lardner"
"Studs Terkel - Hugh Fullerton"
"Kevin Tighe - Sport Sullivan"
"[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."
"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."
"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."
"The inside story of how one team, for a price, broke all the rules...along with the heart of every kid in the USA."
"Fellas, we’re in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can’t get their coal out of the ground without us cause we’re a union! Cause we’re the workers damn it and we take care of each other!"
"I take care of my people. You bring 'em trouble, and you're a dead man. Sleep tight, Kenehan."
"I've met Mr. Felts. I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire or ice was burned with paintings."
"Now you watch your mouth, peckerwood. I've been called nigger, and I can't help that's the way white folks is, but I ain't never been called no scab!"
"[Narrating] It were 19 and 20 in the southwest fields and things was tough. The miners was trying to bring the union to West Virginia and the coal operators and their gun thugs was set on keeping them out."
"We done it mama! We're gonna have the union!"
"[Narrating] All we got is our misery, Joe Kenehan used to say, and the least we could do is share it."
"'Round here, there's the Missionary folks. They's the hardshell Baptists. Then there's the Freewill folks, which is your softshell Baptists. Right now, I preach for both."
"I was putting up blackberries when Trammel Blankenship came shoutin' up the holler that the Number 5 had blown. I remember I took the pot off the stovetop and washed my hands before I went down. It took two days to dig through. And then when they brung 'em up, you couldn't tell which was which. They found blood on the walls from fellas trying to claw their way out. Mrs. Elkins, Mrs. Mounts, Bridey Mae, me ... we all lost our men in that fire. Danny were seven then. Now he's back in that same hole."
"It takes more than guns to kill a man."
"At the coal company they use you until you wear out."
"Chris Cooper — Joe Kenehan"
"James Earl Jones — "Few Clothes" Johnson"
"Mary McDonnell — Elma Radnor"
"Will Oldham — Danny Radnor"
"David Strathairn — Sid Hatfield"
"Ken Jenkins — Sephus Purcell"
"Gordon Clapp — Griggs"
"Kevin Tighe — Hickey"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.