One of my favorite baseball movies of all time is Eight Men Out. As fans should know, this 1988 film details the infamous “Black Sox Scandal,” in which eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox took money from gamblers to tank the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. The story of the “Black Sox Scandal” is something that lifers and even a lot of casual fans know. But what they might not be familiar with, or at least not think about, is the hypocrisy of the Black Sox story.
For those who aren’t as familiar with the story, the main reason Shoeless Joe Jackson and the boys felt compelled to take the money (assuming all eight did) was because of the Chicago’s evil owner, Charles Comiskey.