Eight Men Out

"[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."

"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"

"Paul Walters - Roy Mitchell"