Eight Men Out (1/12) Movie CLIP - Shoeless Joe (1988) HD

[@jeffreythomson3958]

According to the 2016 book Fall From Grace, Jackson responded to the bigmouth fan, "Spell triple, you bonehead, spell triple!"

[@timhadac8783]

So cool to see Ken Berry as the heckler. Berry, of course, was himself a White Sox outfielder, a Golden Glove winner, and an AL all-star in 1967.

[@jondstewart]

Not the Ken Berry from The Cat From Outer Space? 😂

[@mt.killermaninjago3042]

They should make a sequel for the Houston Astros...

[@dylanbrown9722]

ik but the astros haven’t gotten banned or anything

[@5445jedi]

SAVAGE

[@5445jedi]

@@dylanbrown9722 Right, those cheaters got off scot-free.

[@Aazib_Warriors]

Yup, then you realize all Rob Manfred did was fine the Astros $5,000,000 and took some draft picks away.

[@va960]

Yeah, but we need a book first

[@falcon3268]

Poor Jackson...like many people during the time, not everyone could go to school.

[@vernonbrowne6127]

How sad

[@vernonbrowne6127]

@Evan Yasser how sad

[@taylorb7191]

How sad

[@gringodelsur7971]

How sad

[@sagnik3556]

how sad.

[@is34youngtribulationforce89]

I loved this movie. I was infatuated with the Black Sox Scandal when I was in middle school. So cool learning about baseball history.

[@ian4040]

The heckler in the stands is former MLB player Ken Berry.

[@wroughtironmgtow9558]

I don't like baseball,but I love love love this movie.I believe it's one of the best movies of all time.The 1920s was one of my favorite decades.The soundtrack is amazing and it was released in a really awesome year (1988).

[@nenabunena]

You should watch The Natural

[@jondstewart]

But it was a totally overlooked movie and wasn’t marketed well at all. Even having Charlie Sheen in it didn’t do anything. Big and Die Hard overshadowed this movie.

[@JasonGabler]

I stopped reading this comment after "I don't like baseball,".

[@donaldzinman2184]

Jackson needs to be in the Hall of Fame.

[@Legba85]

That will never happen.

[@gargouenzene]

You seriously want a POS to be praised ? You never heard about the black sox ???

[@parkerbeard6170]

Recently the Baseball writers tried to get him and Buck Weaver inducted, but was denied

[@angelvalle6515]

Who needs the hall when you play forever on the field of dreams.

[@timrobinson7373]

If I remember this right the guy screaming at Jackson is Ken Berry (former White Sox player not the actor)

[@DetTigerFan]

I remember Ken Berry. I had a few of his baseball cards.

[@coolcat6303]

One of the greatest, if not the greatest, baseball movies ever made. ⚾️👍

[@hjhjhjhj6611]

Absolutely the best.

[@brandontrinidad9091]

Before Charlie sheen was Ricky Vaughn he was Happy Felsch Eight men Out was his Charlie’s first baseball role before major league 0:35

[@jondstewart]

He was already well-known when this came out, but reduced to a background character. Probably why this movie didn’t do well in theaters.

[@SamuelJ888]

0:50 that Busher Dickie Kerr would go on to have a fantastic world series while Lefty would set a record for most losses in a single world series with three

[@BethHarmon-yh8ms]

And at least Dickie actually played to win in 1919 Series. Which is more than you can say for Lefty.

[@donhatter159]

0:12 This is me talking to the baseball bat

[@merccadoosis8847]

I'm old enough to remember when players talked to their bats, slept with them, oiled them in winter, and treasured them as if they were living things. This may sound absurd to the modern audience. But, believe it or not, that's the way players were back in the old days. As a 70 year old former amateur player & coach, I know that for a fact.

[@randomtraveler9854]

According to the book Eight Men Out this scene happened in 1917 in Detroit not 1919 in Chicago.

[@randomtraveler9854]

Evan Yasser With almost the entire same roster, including the "Black Sox" players. One more reason they were expected to win.

[@stevenhoward1868]

1:44 me when anyone has a good comeback

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

0:22 James Read and Jace Alexander (Lefty Williams and Dicky Kerr). James Read will play Dr Corman in Uneasy lies the Crown in 1990, two years after he did Eight Men Out with John Sayles.

[@TheBatugan77]

I always wondered...if Shoeless Joe could out hit his teammates by 100 points...why they didn't try to emulate him a little more, and razz him a little less.

[@ckmoore101]

Its Hollywood. They are infatuated with bullies.

[@JasonGabler]

Runs. No points in baseball.

[@scottiei]

@@JasonGabler he's talking batting average, not runs scored.

[@sce2aux464]

"Can you spell 'triple'?"

[@Voucher765]

After this scandal famed Yankees batter Babe Ruth came in and restored everyone's trust with baseball.

[@abon587]

With a swing he modeled after Shoeless Joe's, interestingly enough.

[@JasonGabler]

Because Ruth was such an upstanding fellow :)

[@thomasmoncrief883]

Ruth was a drunk and cheated on his wife.

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

My jaw is hurting watching chew that stuff

[@seanheffernan1206]

Builds character

[@theguywhoisaustralian1465]

@@seanheffernan1206 and cancer

[@TheBatugan77]

Google the actual Ring Lardner. The likeness is astounding. John Sayles did a helluva job.

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

we have Wild Thing Vaughn in the dugout for the 1919 Black Sox

[@jeffreychavey4161]

May not have looked like the real Jackson but that’s a great swing

[@nrkgalt]

It's better than Field of Dreams turning him into a right handed hitter.

[@HankFinkle11]

Sweeney played college baseball.

[@blacjackdaniels200]

Right? Very smooth..def can tell He played

[@kennybegeske8824]

D.B. Sweeney will go to the Chicago White Sox game dress as Shoeless Joe Jackson from eight men out

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

I love that movie. I think it catches the mood of the period. People were tough back then. And that was the end of WWI and the Spanish Flu period, which WAS a deadly flu that killed people overnight in the prime of their lives, between being a 10 year old and a 45 year old. Older people didn't usually catch it.

[@frankcamera1234]

I realize this is a old comment but after ww1 was the area of the lost generation the generation that was traumatized and broken by the horror of the war it wasn’t that they were it was that they were no longer the same people they saw their friends die in a place that was worse than hel

[@jamesrivera4947]

Well, I guess he DID ask Black Betsy for a triple and got it ⚾

[@sweetloveya1]

DB Sweeney is gorgeous!!!😍

[@jaxonjaxoff3291]

Can we get a film about Angel Hernandez?

[@abegoldman8749]

I bet all the sox players hung out in bridgeport back then, for those of you who arent from chicago bridgeport is a predominantly blue collar area near sox park with a lot of sox fans, but none of the current players ever hang out there because they dont feel comfortable being around people with so much less money than them, they just sort of get on the interstate right by the park and head out to their big houses in the burbs, but i bet back then it was different.

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

Daniel Bernard Sweeney play the greatest baseball player Joseph "Shoeless Joe" Jackson. Unfortunaly, Judge Landis blackmail him because the scandal of Black Soxs !

[@andrewphillips8884]

The heckler is Ken Berry. He is a former major leaguer with 2 gold gloves. I’m best friends with his son Boomer.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Do people ever say "Here's Boomer", and hum or whistle the title theme to that show that was on NBC, back in the '80s?

[@infenetesports4369]

1:22 you can see a skyscraper

[@boomdos4265]

First skyscraper was built in 1884, so uh...okay???

[@slevemcdichael5274]

Infenete Sports They had tall buildings in the 1920s.

[@Voucher765]

@@slevemcdichael5274 tallest at the time was the Woolworth Building at 57 stories

[@kennybegeske8824]

Put it on Netflix kids and epic movies

[@jondstewart]

Netflix kids? They weren’t interested in seeing this movie in 1988! Child’s Play was playing next door when this came out and they had a field day watching it. I remember!

[@cameronscott6002]

So glad they made a movie about this. I made so much money of this series. Redsox in 9 or was it 10?

[@jeffreyharrington2697]

Olive Films released this movie on blu ray.

[@tonyanthonyfowler]

Is that how shoeless Joe hit? Is that his batting stance and swing style?

[@kyleburnett4795]

Shoeless Joe hit exactly like Babe Ruth, or Ruth hit exactly like him I should say. Ruth copied Joe's stance and swing to a tee.

[@salads2706]

ruth shortened up his leg distance to a much tighter stance

[@tonyanthonyfowler]

@Evan Yasser he was banned it's not like he voluntarily quit

[@abc.animal5143]

Shoeless Joe from Hannibal MO

[@speedraser2605]

I'll go. I want to talk about american debt and global warming. No back door realty deals. We will bring aid for the children.

[@speedraser2605]

The economy must go on! (keep bars closed)

[@matthorgan2984]

Spell sit or shit?

[@davidgee2988]

Why would White Sox fans razz the best player on the team and the league? I mean, imagine Angel fans yelling at Mike Trout like that. Good job of knowing the game there, John Sayles.

[@davidgee2988]

@Andrew Furrer Is that what you always say when someone comments on a poor writing or directing decision? That just makes you sound really unintelligent. I mean, if someone hit a foul ball towards the stands and Joe Jackson flew like Superman over the crowd and caught it, would you say, "Because it's a movie"?

[@davidgee2988]

@Andrew Furrer Aaaaaand Andrew shuts up.

[@dariog36th]

According to the book this story took place in Detroit. They just put it in here to avoid using another stadium in the movie.

[@coolcat6303]

Lots of hometown fans have gone after their own players. Alex Rodriguez got booed big time by Yankees fans when it came out that he was using steroids. So have many other players. And this film was very accurate according to many sources. So your criticism of Sayles isn’t valid.

[@davidgee2988]

@@dariog36th Look at the scene again. They're playing against the St. Louis Browns, the Sox are wearing their home whites, and in the other home game scenes that ballpark is depicted as the Sox home field.

[@bryantchung3933]

This is cool

[@EPICLOGIE]

What's in his mouth a ball? Loool

[@coolcat6303]

Tobacco

[@rentslave]

While this movie was being made,a much bigger fix was being planned on the streets of Chicago,culminating in the seizure of the Presidency in 2009.Alas,there were no Buck Weavers involved.

[@braxtonoertwig9191]

you would have thought Patrick Dempsey would have gotten a part in this movie

[@Jiltedin2007]

Hey Mister, can you spell shit? Lol funny!

[@VickStarkiller]

Jiltedin2007 *sit

[@WildwoodClaire1]

"Eight men Out" is one of John Sayles weakest films, mostly due to miscasting. NONE of the actors were able to believably portray the naivete, lack of education, and some cases, lack of intelligence of the players involved. The film is also based on a novel that incorporates a host of erroneous myths, like the idea that the White Sox were regarded as near-invincible, and that the players were motivated by Charlie Comiskey's stinginess. Records show that the White Sox were among the better-paid teams at the time. Actually, a convenient and somewhat casual disregard for match-fixing and bribery had infected baseball for years. And other World Series had been suspect, specifically the 1914 series between the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Braves. The A's WERE regarded as unbeatable but got clobbered by the lowly Braves. However, the substandard A's performance may have been a departing FU (several stars were jumping to the newly formed Federal League) to Connie Mack, whose extreme stinginess made Charlie Comiskey seem downright extravagant in comparison.

[@coolcat6303]

I totally disagree. The cast was awesome & the direction was spot on. It’s also considered, by many, to be one of the greatest sports films of all time.

[@WildwoodClaire1]

@@coolcat6303 I greatly admire John Sayles' work, especially "Lone Star.' I'm reasonably certain that he would not have cast John Cusack or Charlie Sheen as Buck Weaver and Happy Felsch if he'd had a choice.

[@mtg1470]

@@HankFinkle11 No, its true. The White Sox had the second highest payroll in all of baseball and the pitcher was the 2nd highest paid pitcher in the league. He wasn't sat for the last two weeks of the season to be rested for the playoffs as depicted in the film. He pitched the 2nd to last game of the year and lost

[@HankFinkle11]

It’s a classic.

[@BethHarmon-yh8ms]

You know this how? Maybe the movie didn't portray the events accurately but the performances were top notch. John Cusack in particular gives one of his finest performances on screen as Buck Weaver. I highly doubt that Sayles would have casted him or any other actor in the film if he didn't want them. @@WildwoodClaire1

[@Peter-ni2ql]

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