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Eight Men Out
Eight Men Out
is a 1988
sports
drama film
based on
Eliot Asinof
's 1963 book
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
. It was written and directed by
John Sayles
. The film is a dramatization of
Major League Baseball
's
Black Sox scandal
, in which eight members of the
Chicago White Sox
conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the
1919 World Series
or were aware of the fix. Much of the movie was filmed at the old
Bush Stadium
in
Indianapolis
,
Indiana
.
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