Synopsis
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Cast
John Cusack
Buck Weaver
Clifton James
Charles Comiskey
Michael Lerner
Arnold Rothstein
Christopher Lloyd
Bill Burns
John Mahoney
Kid Gleason
Charlie Sheen
Hap Felsch
David Strathairn
Eddie Cicotte
D. B. Sweeney
'Shoeless' Joe Jackson
Don Harvey
Swede Risberg
Michael Rooker
Chick Gandil
Perry Lang
Fred McMullin
James Read
Lefty Williams
Jace Alexander
Dickie Kerr
Gordon Clapp
Ray Schalk
Richard Edson
Billy Maharg
Bill Irwin
Eddie Collins
Michael Mantell
Abe Attell
Kevin Tighe
Sport Sullivan
Studs Terkel
Hugh Fullerton
John Anderson
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
James Desmond
Smitty
John Sayles
Ring Lardner
Eliot Asinof
Heydler
Clyde Bassett
Ban Johnson
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