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...Asinof, tries to answer one central question: what would drive these eight men to sacrifice the game of baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...
...gamblers, especially Bill Burns (Christopher Lloyd) and Sport Sullivan (Kevin Tighe), notice that some of the star players want more than what Comiskey pays his team. It is the gamblers who bring the idea of a fix to two players, Chick Gandil (Michael Rooker) and Swede Risberg (Don Harvey...
...John Sayles for insisting on the continuing relevance of the scandal and for bringing it to the screen despite the narrative problems it presents. These include lack of a heroic central figure; hard-to- dramatize subtleties in the relationships between teammates (and between players and their cheap owner, Charles Comiskey) that ripened some of them for corruption; the fact that the ballplayers were legally exonerated yet exiled from the game by a commissioner hastily recruited to spruce up baseball's image...
...This was despite the overwhelming evidence supporting his claim that he always played his hardest (he led both teams with a .375 average in the 1919 Series, and his twelve hits would still stand as a Series record) and even attempted to notify his team's owner, Charles A. Comiskey, that some of his teammates were planning to throw the World Series. In fact, it may even be his honesty and love for the game that Comiskey--who himself has been suspected of being a party to a fix--took exception to, and eventually led to the early termination...
...Chicago, Andy Frain Services, a supplier of ushers and ticket takers for concert halls and sports arenas like Comiskey Park, is faced with new recruiting headaches. Says Operations Director James Wronski: "The bonus of * seeing a ball game or hearing a concert used to be enough to attract the workers we needed. We used to sign up half the kids we solicited for jobs. Now it's below...