5/24/2023 0 Comments Eight men out by eliot asinof![]() After they were banished from Major League Baseball for their roles in fixing the 1919 World Series, they fanned out across the country and spent the next decade earning a living the only way they knew how-with bat and glove. So did Weaver and the rest of the Black Sox: Swede Risberg, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, and Fred McMullin. But Jackson did play in hundreds of games like that under his own name, not a pseudonym. That scene, like many in Hollywood films, never happened. Weaver dismisses the idea with a wistful line: “Nah, those fellas are all gone now.” A fan in the stands thinks he has seen Brown before-maybe under his real name of Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Sweeney) is tearing the cover off the ball. ![]() ![]() In the final scene of John Sayles’s 1988 film Eight Men Out, Buck Weaver (played by John Cusack) is shown attending a semipro game in Hackensack, New Jersey, where a talented but unknown center fielder called “Brown” (played by D.B. Pictured second row, starting fifth from left: Happy Felsch, Buck Weaver, Swede Risberg, and Eddie Cicotte with the “Ex-Major League Stars.” () One year after they were banned from Organized Baseball, several Black Sox players embarked on a baseball tour of the Midwest in 1922. ![]()
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