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Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Theatrical
Sep 2, 1988
DVD / Blu-ray
May 8, 2001
Box Office
$5.7M
Budget
$6.1M
Return
0.9x
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1
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Studio
Orion Pictures, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions
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Full credits →J
John Cusack
Buck Weaver
C
Clifton James
Charles Comiskey
M
Michael Lerner
Arnold Rothstein
C
Christopher Lloyd
Bill Burns
J
John Mahoney
Kid Gleason
C
Charlie Sheen
Hap Felsch
D
David Strathairn
Eddie Cicotte
D
D. B. Sweeney
'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
D
Don Harvey
Swede Risberg
M
Michael Rooker
Chick Gandil
P
Perry Lang
Fred McMullin
J
James Read
Lefty Williams
J
Jace Alexander
Dickie Kerr
G
Gordon Clapp
Ray Schalk
R
Richard Edson
Billy Maharg
B
Bill Irwin
Eddie Collins
M
Michael Mantell
Abe Attell
K
Kevin Tighe
Sport Sullivan
S
Studs Terkel
Hugh Fullerton
J
John Anderson
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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The inside story of how the national pastime became a national scandal.
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The Scandal That Shook a Nation
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The Scandal That Rocked A Nation
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