10 Greatest Baseball Films Of All Time

It is somewhat amazing that it took nearly seventy years for a feature film about one of America’s most infamous scandals to be made. Re-examining the roles and reasons for the players participation in the throwing of the 1919 World Series, Eight Men Out provided viewers and baseball fans with a cinematic reconsideration of baseball’s darkest hour.

Based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 non-fiction book of the same name, the film addresses the ongoing financial tensions between the players and White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, as well as the hidden organised crime operation that was behind the fix. The film's interpretation of the events provides viewers with a reason to sympathise with the eight men that would subsequently be banned from baseball for life. Despite making a loss at the box office, the film is an under-appreciated classic of the genre and a must watch for any American history and/or baseball fans.

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The film ends with a glimpse of what could have been for one of baseball's most talented ball players, Shoeless Joe Jackson. Now hitting triples in a semi-professional league, Jackson was still a quality player, but with the ban still in place he was forever to be remembered as one of the eight 'Black Sox Bums'.