Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. Most of the film was filmed at the old Bush Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.[3]
^Gerry Molyneaux, "John Sayles", Renaissance Books, 2000 p 179.
^"Eight Men Out (1988)". Box Office Mojo. 1988-10-11. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
^Eight Men Out at the American Film Institute Catalog.
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