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Today at 5:30 p.m., Don Sweeney, the surprise of the Boston Bruins pre-season camp, will play his first regular-season NHL game...
This afternoon, Don Sweeney '88 will skate on the ice of Boston Garden. He won't be playing in the Beanpot. He won't be playing in the ECAC Championships...
...facing the RPI Engineers or the St. Lawrence Saints, or any other college team in the nation. Today, Harvard hockey alumnus Don Sweeney will trade in his Crimson for the gold and black of the Boston Bruins...
...this conspiring occurs at a time when baseball was Chicago's only religion. When kids would worship the hitting of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D.B. Sweeney) or the sparkling fielding of Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen). What Sayles tries to create in Eight Men Out is a struggle between the innocence of baseball and the outside forces that try to smear baseball's image. Such a struggle leads to tragic consequences...
...example, Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...