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This 5 page essay reviews Eliot Asinof's book Eight Men Out, The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, and its film adaptation, directed by John Sayles for Orion Picture, comparing similarities and differences. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Eight Men Out Research Compiled for
, Enterprises Inc. By - June, 2012 properly! The 1919 Chicago White Sox are widely considered
to be one of the greatest teams in baseball history. However, eight of the teams stars lost their brilliance in the eyes of the public when they succumbed to greed
and hatred of the teams owner, Charles Comiskey, when they engaged in the worst scandal that baseball had ever faced. Eliot Asinofs book Eight Men Out, The Black Sox and
the 1919 World Series, and its film adaptation, directed by John Sayles for Orion Pictures, tell a story of American disillusionment, greed and corruption. There is no doubt that the
1919 World Series scandal is one of the most gripping events in baseball history. The story of the 1919 White Sox scandal is superbly told in both the book and
the film; however, there is some dispute as to the accuracy of Asinofs text, which provides the basis for Sayles film. The New York Times book review of Eight
Men Out speculates that cynicism within American culture began in 1920 when the 1919 World Series scandal broke and it was revealed that eight White Sox players were accused of
intentionally losing the Series because of their collusion with gamblers who betted on the outcome (Gilroy). The book recounts how the team owner Charles Comiskey grossly underpaid his players and
treated them as indentured peons, which generated such a degree of hatred and frustration among the players that at least six of the players agreed to intentionally lose the World
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